Homemade leverage
In finance, homemade leverage is the use of personal borrowing of investors to change the amount of financial leverage of the firm. Investors can use homemade leverage to change an unleveraged firm into a leveraged firm.[1][2]
According to the Corporate Finance Institute, "the founding philosophy of homemade leverage is the Modigliani–Miller theorem, which assumes an efficient market and the absence of corporate taxes and bankruptcy costs."[3]
Investors take this concept and use it to “recreate a leverage scenario using a portion of their investments. The argument works under the assumption that corporate taxes and bankruptcy costs are absent, which would otherwise disrupt an investor’s ability to produce the leverage scenario accurately.”[3]
See also
References list
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Homemade Leverage". Retrieved 5 November 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ross, Stephen (2011). Essentials of Corporate Finance. North Ryde, New South Wales: Mc Graw Hill. p. 403.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Homemade Leverage - Overview, Pros, Cons, & Considerations". Corporate Finance Institute. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
