Assuming equal risks, is it better to buy a higher yielding taxable or a lower yielding tax free money market fund?
Not exact matches
To keep our business interests aligned, we
assume equal financial
risk.
Many finance practitioners
assume that the expected market
risk premium is
equal to the historical market
risk premium and to the required market
risk premium.
For the relationship between dividends and the equity
risk premium, they
assume the difference between dividend - price ratio and
risk - free rate
equals equity
risk premium minus expected dividend growth rate.
In the differential inflation approach, using the US dollar
risk - free rate as the starting point, you are
assuming a global real
risk free rate, set
equal to that rate embedded in the US treasury bond rate as the base for all local currency
risk free rates.
If we
assume that the
risk - free rate is a 3 - month US Treasury (10 - year US Treasury is also common) and
equal to 1.50 %, the portfolio beta is 1.60 (60 % more systematic
risk or volatility than the benchmark), the benchmark has returned 10 % annualized, and the portfolio return is 20 %, we have:
Therefore if you wish to drive in South America your insurer will expect you to pay a higher premium than someone who only wishes to drive short journeys in Idaho (
assuming that both drivers have otherwise
equal risk profiles).