a 'look through value' example

One of Australia's largest corporate failures used 'look through values'

“Robert... Robert... in this market if people want to judge the sustainability and the strength of our business off the back of where our hybrids trade on very thin volumes then that’s their judgement.”

— Phil Green, former CEO of Babcock & Brown

In February 2009, the ‘Robert’ in the above quote, Robert Gottliebsen, was giving Phil Green a hard time about ‘look-through’ gearing – the amount of leverage built into the entire Babcock group around the world.

Interesting that LDM and Fowler use the same terminology at NXS.