The rule would have had a profound impact on AR Global's business plan of selling shares in
illiquid instruments to individual investors in exchange for hefty brokerage commissions.
He advocates «policies that are simple, transparent, and focused rather than the increasingly popular alternative tactics, such as
illiquid instruments and vehicles, leverage, and complex, opaque investment strategies.»
With respect to the limitation on illiquid securities, in the event that a subsequent change in net assets or other circumstances cause a fund to exceed its limitation, the fund will take steps to bring the aggregate amount of
illiquid instruments back within the limitations as soon as reasonably practicable.
This is typically more of a issue with
illiquid instruments where even smaller orders may have price impact.
How do you calculate the value of
illiquid instruments?
Not exact matches
The latter re-incorporated themselves as «banks» to get Federal Reserve handouts and access to the Fed's $ 2 trillion in «cash for trash» swaps crediting Wall Street with Fed deposits for otherwise «
illiquid» loans and securities (the euphemism for toxic, fraudulent or otherwise insolvent and unmarketable debt
instruments)-- at «cost» based on full mark - to - model fictitious valuations.
«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»).
The following was published at RealMoney on August 6th, 2007: Editor's Summary The
illiquid debt
instruments at the heart of the current crisis are subject to regime shifts.
This is in effect the same as mark to market valuations for
illiquid financial
instruments and requires poring through records to find the price of either a comparable basket of goods to one that would be used for inflation calculations today or a comparable set of items.
Alternative investments are speculative, subject to high return volatility and involve a high degree of risk including, but not limited to, the risks associated with leverage, derivative
instruments such as options and futures, distressed securities, may be
illiquid on a long term basis and short sales.
The Manager may determine the fair valuation of a security when market quotations are insufficient or not readily available, when securities are determined to be
illiquid or restricted, or when in the judgment of the Manager the prices or values available do not represent the fair value of the
instrument.
And by «
illiquid» here, I include all financial
instruments that carry a surrender charge.
When accounting rules are not well - defined, and
instruments are
illiquid, even well - meaning managements tend to err in their favor in the short run.
IHS Markit currently offers pricing and valuation services for vanilla and exotic OTC derivatives, fixed income cash products, private equity and
illiquid debt
instruments.