See internal rate of return and interest rate risk. American Banker Glossary
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dollar-weighted rate of return. discount rate at which net present value ( NPV) investment is zero. The rate at which a bond's future cash flows, discounted back to today, equal its price. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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written abbreviation for internal rate of return
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Internal Rate of Return. A measure of return on an investment that takes both the size and timing of cash flows into account. The formula is identical in structure to that which is used to calculate the yield to maturity of a bond because it shows not only the total return, but takes into account how quickly that return was earned. Sometimes known as annualized rate of return.
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IRR UK US noun [C] FINANCE
► ABBREVIATION for internal rate of return: a calculation that measures how much profit an investment makes, without considering things such as interest rates or inflation: »
They had made an IRR of about 25%, which was extremely good.
Financial and business terms. 2012.