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Luis A

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  • Corporate Finance

The fractal nature of asset-liability matching

  • May 1, 2022
  • Luis A
What type of asset-liability matching am I talking about Asset-liability matching means different things to different people, even when you think you’re dealing with a specific situation and therefore talking…
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Time-weighted vs. money-weighted return

  • April 9, 2022
  • Luis A
For money managers (and for our personal investments), rate of return is the most important number that is expressed in percentage terms. But how do we calculate it? Do we…
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What’s the expected return on buybacks (a theoretical view)

  • March 23, 2022
  • Luis A
Realized return of buybacks When we think about returns on buyback programs, we normally look back and estimate the realized return of holding the company’s stock. For example, company X…
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How to think about swaps

  • March 14, 2022
  • Luis A
Swaps is one of those topics that is perceived to be basic, easy, and intuitive. But not really. We study them briefly in business school and in the CFA curriculum,…
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This website

  • January 30, 2022
  • Luis A
As of January 2022, this site is set up and maintained with a few tools. hardware and apps I use a MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) with the Apple M1 Pro…
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How to think about minimum cash balance

  • November 16, 2021
  • Luis A
Over the years, I’ve asked this question to my banker friends: “what’s our minimum cash balance?” The topic would come up from time to time, but not very often because…
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How is VWAP calculated?

  • March 16, 2018
  • Luis A
When equity brokers pitch their share repurchase capabilities to corporations, they never fail to mention their ability to outperform VWAP. When asked how they outperform so consistently, the answers tend…
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Yield vs. Return, what’s the difference?

  • February 16, 2018
  • Luis A
Many times we use the terms return and yield interchangeably, and that may be because both concepts describe investment performance. But they are not the same. The difference is this…
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Nuances of the Barclays Fixed Income Indices

  • February 11, 2018
  • Luis A
Most corporate investors use benchmarks to express their desired asset allocation, to guide their asset managers’ portfolio construction process and, on an ex-post basis, to measure their performance. Well known…
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Limits of information for trading and investing

  • January 27, 2018
  • Luis A
Bad advice to avoid “It is consistently taught in business schools across the world that the more information we absorb, the better investment decisions we will make.” It makes sense,…
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