Carla Nunes and Anas Aboulamer have published "Cost of Capital for Companies in Distress". The publication is a publicly available chapter of the book "Valuation for INSOLvency Practitioners", 2025, with permission by INSOL.
In his thought-provoking piece “Unimpeachable AI Guardrails”, Zach Meyers explores the ethical challenges AI introduces to the valuation profession. Using the metaphor of a literal guardrail (and a real-life car crash), he emphasizes the importance of principle-based standards over mere checkbox compliance.
- Why Experts Must Evolve from Neutrality to Authentication - In the landmark 20th article of the Unimpeachable Neutrality series, forensic and valuation expert Zachary Meyers, CPA, CVA, argues that the traditional standard of neutrality is no longer sufficient in an age shaped by deepfakes, AI-generated evidence, and digital manipulation.
This paper by Pablo Fernandez, Diego Garcia de la Garza and Lucía F. Acín contains the statistics of a survey about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2025 for 54 countries.
The equity risk premium is the price of risk in equity markets, and it is not only a key input in estimating costs of equity and capital in both corporate finance and valuation, but it is also a key metric in assessing the overall market.