The SEC's new Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee aims to tackle
difficult bond market liquidity challenges, with its first official meeting coming up this week.
Not exact matches
Liquidity risk High yield
bonds that may have been easy to buy or sell when
market conditions were calm can suddenly become very
difficult to sell when volatility increases.
In addition, high - yield
bonds tend to have higher interest rate risk and
liquidity risk, particularly in volatile
market conditions, which makes it more
difficult to sell them.
Large index ETFs, which have real - time net asset values (NAVs), have not helped this pricing problem in fixed income but, in parts of the fixed income
market where there is less
liquidity (such as high yield
bonds), sourcing issues can be more
difficult — particularly in a
market sell - off where buyers may not be readily available with sufficient capacity to take on
bond inventory.
In addition, high yield
bonds tend to have higher interest rate risk and
liquidity risk, particularly in volatile
market conditions, which makes it more
difficult to sell the
bonds.