Abstract
Corporations generally do not have a formal process for evaluating the effectiveness of their treasury departments in managing debt. To the extent that corporate borrowing decisions are predicated on “market timing” rather than matching the interest rate sensitivity of the firm's liabilities to that of its assets, the firm is effectively making bets on interest rates that should be monitored and evaluated.The author has developed an approach that allows for periodic reporting of treasury's performance to investors and that also provides a framework for treasury to compare and choose among alternatives in the capital markets. The basic idea is to calculate a company's liability return and then establish a benchmark portfolio that allows measurement of relative performance. For a nonfinancial corporation, a useful benchmark can be constructed using the collective debt obligations of the company's industry peers. The assumption underlying this benchmark is that the financing of the industry as a whole is designed to produce an “optimal” asset‐liability configuration and net exposure to interest rates.
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