In an article published in the Journal of International Arbitration, Aaron Dolgoff and Tiago Duarte-Silva review various proposed alternative methods for determining prejudgment interest rates: the claimant’s ex post or hindsight cost of capital; the claimant’s ex ante or opportunity cost of capital; the respondent’s borrowing rate; and the risk-free interest rate. To learn more, click here or contact the authors.
Factors affecting variations in securities class action claims rates
Claims rates are of interest to parties to the settlement process. Average claims rates, which are well below 100%, suggest either that plaintiffs’ class-wide...