1) Open up excel, list out all your expected cash flows from your current age to when you think you will retire
2) Discount those cash flows using a 7% discount rate (~9% expected return on the market with a ~2% inflation rate. If you disagree with these numbers, whatever, just use 7% to be consistent with everyone else).
3) Sum up those discounted cash flows
I get $16 M.
Also, if this takes you more than 45 seconds to do, get the fuck out of investment banking.
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-5 Billion (I'll eventually lose money from trading and principal investments)
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This is the most pointless exercise I have ever seen.
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