Sentences with phrase «illiquid investments take»

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Turning illiquid private - company stock into cash by selling shares to the public required engaging a top investment bank, which typically wouldn't take a company public until it had had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

«An illiquid trading environment has exacerbated price declines that first began in June on profit taking and then continued through July as equity markets remained volatile on a host of concerns from geopolitics to earnings to the economy,» said investment strategist for LPL Financial, Anthony Valeri.

Thus they moved to sell illiquid investments, and take a haircut on them.

Personally, I think that ten years from now, illiquid investments will only be taken on by those that can lock them away.

Generally fund managers shy away or simply can't invest in liquidations as 1) the company falls outside their defined investment universe, or 2) the shares are too illiquid (especially if the company delists), or 3) the timeframe is too unclear (often liquidations take 3 years or more), or the market cap becomes too small, etc..

After taking over the reins in 1987, David Swensen, the chief investment officer of Yale Endowment, moved aggressively into non-traditional and often illiquid asset classes like foreign equity, absolute return, real assets and private equity.

Taking on illiquid investments is a bet the the future will be very good; there will be no reason to liquidate funds.