We assess the sensitivity of a company's cash flow to key macro factors such as interest rates together with the
impact of financial leverage and capture this information in our database.
A cash value life insurance policy is almost never appropriate for short term planning, but rather compounding the benefits of the policy with time to create a
tool of financial leverage.
Since such
use of financial leverage can potentially magnify gains but could also saddle the trader with devastating losses, leverage has the well - deserved reputation of being a double - edged sword.
Debt / Total capital, which is a
measure of financial leverage, is calculated by dividing long - term debt by total capitalization (the sum of equity plus preferred equity and long - term debt).
The deepening recession and spreading financial crisis is the beginning of the unwinding of about three
decades of financial leverage and spending excesses.
Though we have difficulties at present from the housing overhang, and the
unwind of financial leverage, there will be continuing difficulties over the next two decades as assets must be liquidated and taxes raised to support the promises of Medicare, and to a lesser extent, Social Security.
We can view it as a buildup of operating leverage in one group of exporting nations, and a
buildup of financial leverage in the importing nations.
Negative gearing is a form
of financial leverage whereby an investor borrows money to acquire an income - producing investment and the gross income generated by the investment (at least in the short term) is less than the cost of owning and managing the investment, including depreciation and interest charged on the loan (but excluding capital repayments).
The Australian Government has a great
deal of financial leverage with which to influence state behaviour and encourage the making of consent determinations.
It is the unwise
use of financial leverage that gets many well - intended investors into trouble, and I'd like to take you a little deeper on why liquidity is so important with real estate.
Given the record amount of corporate debt outstanding, U.S. corporations have increased the
degree of financial leverage to well above pre-crisis levels.
In my opinion, the four most important factors that will influence the volatility of your portfolio's return relative to the market's return are: (1) the number of holdings; (2) the correlation between holdings; (3) the
amount of financial leverage each holding has; and (4) the market cap size of each holding.
Also the degree
of financial leverage and diversification are also factors