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Rational Investor

Vs.

Corporate Finance

Chronic conflict = Financial Crisis


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Rational investors follow & expect long term equity returns linked to business performance, not speculative short term price
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Long term planning makes short term volatility irrelevant


The riskiness of an investment is not measured by beta but rather by the reasoned probability of that investment causing its owner a loss of purchasing power over his contemplated holding period.
Warren E. Buffett, Chairman, in a letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, February 25, 2012
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Jan,1990 to Feb,2014 Berkshire Hathaway

The Result

Dow Jones Index

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What Corporate Finance Prescribes


the opportunity cost of capital depends on the projects beta. ...Siemens, a German industrial giant, uses 16 different discount rates, depending on the riskiness of each line of its business.
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 3rd edition, ISBN 0-07553109-7, Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, Alan J. Marcus, Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Bradford D. Jordan, pages 421-423.
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Feb,2004 to Feb,2014

The Result

Siemens
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Both, the short-term and beta are irrelevant for opportunity cost of equity
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Corporate financial practice conflicts with rational investor expectations, breeds Financial Crisis such as 2008
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....we do not yet have complete and generally accepted explanations for how financial markets function......Mispricing of assets may contribute to financial crises
- 2013 Nobel Economic Sciences Prize Committee
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Raises questions, Financial Economics never asked

Answers those, Financial Economics never could

To prevent FINANCIAL CRISIS, and transform Financial Management from a Cultivated Art into a truly Objective Science
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