Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Pete Rathburn is ...

I look for companies that have a long history of raising their respective dividends consistently, year after year, at a rate that is faster than my expected long-term rate of inflation (2.5%). I also ...

・Higher interest rates reduce equity valuations by increasing discount rates and lowering the present value of future earnings ・Investors tend to pay lower valuation multiples in a higher-rate ...

First, let’s be clear on what the discount rate is. If we consider valuation calculations as a two-step process, the first step is to determine the expected future cash flows from the pension scheme ...