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- August 26, 2020 at 10:23 pm #582220
Hi,
I’m slightly confused with Maculay/Project duration. While for bond we calculate with all CF (weighted discounted coupon and redemption value)/Market price, I’m not sure I fully get the logic for project duration. Why do we consider only PV (Returns) and not NPV (including Investment)?
thank you in advance and kind regards
OscarAugust 27, 2020 at 7:38 am #582259Have you watched my free lectures on this, because I do explain in the lectures 🙂
August 27, 2020 at 9:52 pm #582392I have watched them again and it’s really clear by the way you explain them. Anyhow I still have a doubt on project duration – why don’t we consider the investment part? I guess I get confused because sometime project duration is named as average time to recover the investment but actually it’s just average time to get the cash inflows (and hence give a measure of exposure to risk), right? I shouldn’t really look at the investment part, right?
Then modified project duration just gives a sensitivity analysis of exposure to discount rate chosen, right?
thank you very much in advance and also for your lectures, they are really great.
OscarAugust 28, 2020 at 8:45 am #582437What you have written is correct 🙂
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