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7. Do you think it is more appropriate for a company to own or rent its operating buildings?
Choose your answer
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Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| To own | 76 | 34.86% | |
| To rent | 51 | 23.39% | |
| One cannot say as there is not a fit-for-all answer | 91 | 41.74% |
6. Do you think that companies would be better off if retail banking activities were separated from investment banking activities?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| No | 139 | 31.88% | |
| Yes | 297 | 68.12% |
5. What is a risk free rate for you?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| A long term government bond | 101 | 10.13% | |
| A long term government bond with an AAA rating | 359 | 36.01% | |
| A corporate bond with an AAA rating | 45 | 4.51% | |
| A treasury bill issued by a AAA rated government | 368 | 36.91% | |
| A short term interest rate like Eonia, Euribor or Libor | 124 | 12.44% |
4. Who should bear the most blame for their role in the financial crisis?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| the regulators who didn't see it coming | 92 | 12.89% | |
| investors who are always after bigger returns | 61 | 8.54% | |
| the monetary authorities who left too much cash floating around the economy for too long | 89 | 12.46% | |
| traders who only ever think about themselves | 23 | 3.22% | |
| banks who lent money to all and sundry | 115 | 16.11% | |
| the rating agencies who gave AAA ratings to assets that weren't worth the paper they were written on | 141 | 19.75% | |
| firms that took on too much debt | 17 | 2.38% | |
| teachers of finance who were unable to pass on their knowledge | 8 | 1.12% | |
| students of finance who failed to spend enough time burried in their books (especially the Vernimmen) | 24 | 3.36% | |
| nobody, crises are inevitable | 54 | 7.56% | |
| the whole capitalist system, which doesn't work | 90 | 12.61% |
3. The msci world index reached an all-time high at around 1,7000 in october 2007.
it is now close to 950. when do you think it will again go above 1,700 points?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| In less than one year | 11 | 2.80% | |
| Between one and two years | 41 | 10.43% | |
| Between two and three years | 84 | 21.37% | |
| Between three and five years | 132 | 33.59% | |
| In more than five years | 96 | 24.43% | |
| Never | 29 | 7.38% |
2. Does finance encourage economic growth?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| Yes | 1778 | 85.36% | |
| No | 305 | 14.64% |
1. Which valuation method do you prefer?
Online vote
| Votes | % | Graphique | |
| 2 | 0.08% | ||
| Discounted Dividend Model | 114 | 4.80% | |
| Net restated value | 28 | 1.18% | |
| Discounted cash flows | 849 | 35.76% | |
| P/E ratio (net income multiple) | 95 | 4.00% | |
| EBIT Multiple | 95 | 4.00% | |
| Liquidative value | 673 | 28.35% | |
| Real options | 74 | 3.12% | |
| Sales multiple | 23 | 0.97% | |
| EBITDA multiple | 267 | 11.25% | |
| Others | 154 | 6.49% |
