The biggest caveat I could share is that you are trading places with someone in
a highly illiquid position, albeit at a large discount ideally.
Risk Disclosure: Alternative investment products, including real estate investments, notes & debentures, hedge funds and private equity, involve a high degree of risk, often engage in leveraging and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss, can be
highly illiquid, are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors, may involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information, are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds, often charge high fees which may offset any trading profits, and in many cases the underlying investments are not transparent and are known only to the investment manager.
As always, it stands to reason most participants will prefer to quickly convert
their highly illiquid RFR into a more liquid currency, like BTC or USD.
There is currently no secondary market for these bonds, so they are
highly illiquid.
The spread has been much bigger for other stocks where the supervoting shares are
highly illiquid... e.g. Lennar, IDT C, etc..
Most hedge funds are
highly illiquid and require lockup periods of several months to several years.
Hedge funds may not be suitable for all investors and often engage in speculative investment practices which increase investment risk; are
highly illiquid; are not required to provide periodic prices or valuation; may not be subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds; and often employ complex tax structures.
Loans can be difficult to value and
highly illiquid; they are subject to credit risk, bankruptcy risk, and insolvency.
But today, unless a stock is
highly illiquid, you should never have a problem with «odd lots.»
Private investments are
highly illiquid and risky and are not suitable for all investors.
«The ETF can't be more liquid than the underlying, and we know the underlying can become
highly illiquid.»
Tracking a bond index can be a challenge, particularly in
a highly illiquid sector such as high yield.
• Bank loans can be difficult to value and
highly illiquid; they are also subject to nonpayment, collateral, bankruptcy, default, extension, prepayment and insolvency risks.
Because these investments are
highly illiquid, they are a strong candidate for IRA accounts that you won't withdraw from until retirement.
Loans can be difficult to value and
highly illiquid; they are subject to credit risk, bankruptcy risk, and insolvency.
Minority limited partnership interests in private equity funds are
highly illiquid until fully realized and redeemed by the general partner.
They may be
highly illiquid and can engage in leverage and other speculative practices that may increase the volatility and risk of loss.
But at the same time, it is not desirable for all of a super fund's assets to be invested in
highly illiquid assets.
Not exact matches
This bottleneck makes for a
highly risky and
illiquid cryptocurrency, Oldenburg says, adding that «the old bitcoin network is as good as unusable.»
These investments are generally
illiquid and
highly speculative, and are not suitable for anyone without a high tolerance for risk and / or low liquidity needs.
«Exchange - traded products introduce self - reflexivity by creating a
highly liquid security (listed stock) that tracks a potentially
illiquid underlying instrument (e.g. high - yield bonds, commodity futures)» (again, Cole's «Prisoner's Dilemma»).
Rather, my impression is that the problems at JPM may be the result of using
highly leveraged,
illiquid derivative transactions as a «cross-hedge,» intended to reduce the risk of default in a whole portfolio of complex positions including (but not limited to) European mortgage debt, but with the long and short portions of the position behaving unexpectedly in relation to each other.
There are risks associated with real estate investing: real estate is
illiquid, expensive to manage and buy or sell, and
highly geographically concentrated.
The board is also required to receive breach reports, where the fund either broke its
highly liquid or
illiquid thresholds.
He claimed that the bottleneck on the Blockchain results in a
highly risky and
illiquid digital currency:
This bottleneck makes for a
highly risky and
illiquid cryptocurrency... the old Bitcoin network is as good as unusable.»
«For all its technical problems a bitcoin token is rare and
illiquid, thus
highly prized for its scarcity — worth the extraordinary expense to mine and traded among elites based on that scarcity.