M.Com. / The potential investor in real estate is often confronted with a selection of properties in which he can invest. Each of these investments involves an expected rate of return and a risk that can be expressed in relation to each other. This relationship, known as the risk profile, differs from investment to investment and is therefore unique to a particular investment. The expected rate of return on an investment in real estate depends on the total expected tenant income less operating expenditures. Furthermore, the expected rate of return is influenced by the choice of capital structure. To be efficient, the capital structure must combine own as well as borrowed capital. Expected gross tenant income increases from year to year in terms of the escalation clause. The market average discount rate, at which income is discounted, does not necessarily have to differ from year to year. Consequently. a higher income could lead to a higher discounted value. The risk of investing in real estate is influenced by various factors such as location, interest rates, mass opinion, tenant mix and operating risk...

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-168). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-168). Also available on the Internet.

The most widely used Cost of Capital model is the Capital Asset Pricing Model. The Beta, Which is a key input into the model has proven to be unreliable and provides no correlation with systematic risk. As risk increases, so should the cost of capital of the firm. The Beta is a historic measure of risk and does not capture the future outlook of risk. The future of an organisation and its risk may look very different to the past and therefore the need to calculate the Cost of Capital of a firm based on the future outlook of the firm. The aim of this research was to analyse the different methodologies used to determine the Cost of Capital of a firm in order to determine which models are better ex ante predictor of Cost of Capital in the South African context. Regression analysis was used to make statistical inferences between the measure of risk used and the Cost of Capital model in question. The results of the research has shown that Market Capitalisation and Price to Book ratio are the best proxies for risk when comparing it with the ex ante Cost of Capital models. However, the Three Factor Pricing Model is shown to be the best Cost of Capital model to capture the future outlook of risk. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006-Lavinia Barros de Castro.pdf: 1709487 bytes, checksum: 7e7fd53427d965f069a10b1cdcf3c8f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-15 / The purpose of this work is to analyze investment finance in economic development. The central hypothesis of this study is that the Korean and Brazilian financial structure offers us an important key to understand their swift to industrialization during the period 1950-80. Numerous comparisons have been made between Brazil and Korea, most of them stressing the differences and similarities of the industrial development (catch up). Few analyses emphasizes (and compare) the evolution of financial systems. Also, most treatments of finance are static, missing the Gerschenkronian developmental perspective which would tell us that a credit system based in equity and securities markets is an artifact of early industrialization (as it is the case of England and U.S industrialization), and that the model of state or bank-influenced industrialization is a consequence of lateness vis-?-vis the absence of abundant capital in the private sector. This thesis is organized in four different and independent articles. Article I is a review on the literature about investment finance. Article II examines Korean economic and financial development during the period 1950-80. The third article is a shorter essay, presenting a panel data model to test the relevance of banking finance in explaining economic growth in the case of Korea during the 1950s and the 1960s. Finally, the fourth compares Brazilian and Korean development outcomes (1950-80) in a broad sense. Together, the articles form a set that discusses the needs and challenges of investment finance in economic development, using two late-late-comers experiences. / O objetivo desta tese ? analisar o processo de financiamento do desenvolvimento em duas experi?ncias de industrializa??o tardia. A hip?tese central deste estudo ? que as estruturas financeiras da Cor?ia e do Brasil desempenharam um papel fundamental na transforma??o de economias de base agr?cola para economias de base industrial, ao longo do per?odo 1950-80. Diversas compara??es j? foram feitas entre o desenvolvimento industrial brasileiro e coreano, enfatizando o processo de catch up. Poucas an?lises, por?m, enfatizam e comparam a evolu??o dos sistemas financeiros. Al?m disso, a maioria dos estudos financeiros comparativos s?o est?ticos, sem uma perspectiva hist?rico-institucional. S?o, por isso, desprovidos do insight Gershenkroniano que nos alerta que uma estrutura financeira baseada em mercado de capitais ? comum em pa?ses que se industrializaram precocemente, como a Inglaterra e os EUA. Alternativamente, estruturas baseadas no cr?dito banc?rio privado ou estatal s?o uma conseq??ncia do atraso (lateness); uma resposta adaptativa ? escassez de recursos de capital. Esta tese ? organizada em quarto artigos, independentes entre si. O primeiro artigo ? uma revis?o da literatura sobre o financiamento do desenvolvimento. O segundo examina o desenvolvimento econ?mico e financeiro da Cor?ia durante o per?odo 1950-80. O terceiro ? um ensaio mais curto, onde apresentamos um modelo econom?trico de painel, cruzando dados de cr?dito banc?rio setorial com dados de produ??o industrial coreana nos anos 1950 e 1960. Por fim, o quarto artigo compara os processos de desenvolvimento coreano e brasileiro numa perspectiva ampla, ressaltando as alternativas institucionais para o financiamento do desenvolvimento (1950-80). Juntos, os artigos formam um conjunto que discute as necessidades e desafios para o financiamento do investimento em pa?ses emergentes, utilizando duas experi?ncias de industrializa??o tardia.