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Aswath Damodaran: The Corporate Lifecycle

For the last decade, NYU professor Aswath Damodaran has been incorporating the idea that companies age, just like human beings do. Over the years, it has become his unifying construct that he uses to explain or at least talk about almost every phenomenon in business. In this video, Aswath shares his thoughts on the lifecycle that every company eventually goes through. 

Aswath Damodaran: Measuring country risk

In this article and video, Aswath provides an update to his country risk premium, starting with the drivers of country risk, moving on to measures (sovereign ratings, country risk scores, equity risk premiums) and closing with an explanation of how country risk plays out in business and investing decisions.

Aswath Damodaran: Inflation, Share Buybacks & Sustainable Investing

Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NY University, talks to Morningstar about a number of interesting topics, not least valuation, which is his specialty.

“Valuing a company is understanding the business. Understanding a business is not going through a financial statement and computing ratios. It’s figuring out what makes a business tick.”

Guide to markets Q1 2023

The stock market in 2023 The stock market has always had good and bad times. As much as we’d like to forget the bad ones when things are going well,