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High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be

  • Written by Salvatore Ferraro, PhD candidate, RMIT University
High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should beAustralian businesses are demanding rates of return far higher than their cost of capital, but that doesn't make those hurdles wrong.Shutterstock

Calls by the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims for Australian businesses to cut the hurdle rates of return they expect on new investments should be taken with a grain of...

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