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Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return | Finance Train

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Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return

This video is a part of online course on Corporate Finance by Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU.

This video discusses:

Risk and Return Models
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Mean-Variance Framework
Importance of Diversification
Risk: Diversifiable or not?
Effects of Diversification
Marginal Investor
Analyzing Investor Bases
The Market Portfolio
Risk of an Individual Asset
Limits of CAPM

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Corporate Finance Lecture 4: Conflicts of Interest

Corporate Finance Lecture 6: Estimating Inputs for CAPM

Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran

26 lessons

Lessons

Corporate Finance Lecture 1 - Introduction

Corporate Finance Lecture 2: Shareholders and Management

Corporate Finance Lecture 3: Corporate Governance

Corporate Finance Lecture 4: Conflicts of Interest

Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return

Corporate Finance Lecture 6: Estimating Inputs for CAPM

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Corporate Finance Lecture 7: Estimating Risk

Corporate Finance Lecture 8: All About Estimating Beta

Corporate Finance Lecture 9: Beta and Cost of Equity

Corporate Finance Lecture 10: Estimating Cost of Debt

Corporate Finance Lecture 11: Calculating Cost of Capital

Corporate Finance Lecture 12: Measuring Returns

Corporate Finance Lecture 13: NPV, IRR, and ROE

Corporate Finance Lecture 14: Equity Analysis, Acquisitions and Projects

Corporate Finance Lecture 15: Project Side Costs and Benefits

Corporate Finance Lecture 16: Project Choices and the Financing Decision

Corporate Finance Lecture 17: Debt Tradeoff, Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Optimal Financing Mix

Corporate Finance Lecture 18: Cost of Capital as Optimizing Tool

Corporate Finance Lecture 19: Optimal Financing Mix

Corporate Finance Lecture 20: Designing the Perfect Debt

Corporate Finance Lecture 21: The Dividend Policy (Part 1)

Corporate Finance Lecture 22: The Dividend Policy (Part 2)

Corporate Finance Lecture 23: The Dividend Policy (Part 3)

Corporate Finance Lecture 24: Valuation and Estimating Inputs

Corporate Finance Lecture 25: Valuation (Continued)

Corporate Finance Lecture 26: Course Review