This paper considers the financial optimization problem of a firm with several sub-businesses striving for its optimal RORAC. An insightful example shows that the implementation of classical gradient capital allocation can be suboptimal if division managers are allowed to venture into all...

We extend risk-value models for valuing streams of risky cash flows by introducing the well-known concept of terminal value (based on the application of the perpetuity formula) in this context, where it cannot be used straight forward. For a constant growth assumption we are able to derive upper...