Sentences with phrase «illiquid position»

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.

Instances would include an executive who has received sizable bonuses of restricted stock in his or her company, an investor who has committed a significant portion of his or her portfolio to a temporarily illiquid position, and a real estate developer who is in the process of subdividing and developing a large tract of land.

Mr. Barse notes that they've been unwinding some of the Value Fund's extreme concentration and have been working to reduce the exposure of illiquid positions in the International Value Fund.

Or, consider hedge funds with illiquid positions.

Not exact matches

Emails from Iksil to superiors that were later made public in conjunction with the Senate report show he tried to exit the positions he had taken once he realized he was being squeezed by traders taking the opposing positions in the small, illiquid market.

argues that Alden launched a new subsidiary (InvestmentCO in 2016), and that «those investments may involve transactions with Alden that are entirely unrelated to the Company's core businesses, may disproportionately favor Alden, or may entail Alden and its hedge fund affiliates using InvestmentCO to monetize illiquid or losing positions.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Often stocks profiled are somewhat illiquid as well where patience is required to build a position.

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.

Also, in some cases where your estate is made up of illiquid assets such as a business or real estate, you would not want to have to put your heirs in a position to having to sell the assets.

The former can make sense, Weckbach notes, when one of their multiple accounts includes an illiquid investment (such as a stock position in a small company) that's not easily sold in order to raise funds for an RMD.

And if you hold a lot of any security, the position is illiquid.

Also, I know what the temptation is to mismark illiquid bond positions when incentive payments may be riding on the result (which is why we took the marking out of our hands at a prior firm).

I have found the process of finding net - nets more intellectually stimulating than profitable because I often find that obtaining a position is an exercise in frustration given the illiquid nature of the typical net - net.

The units are thinly traded (and thus illiquid for a large position) but provide, in my opinion, good downside protection for those with patience.

For an investor willing to hold a security until maturity interest rate and liquidity risk are often a secondary concern, but a risk - adverse investor needs to realize that having the ability to exit a position quickly (same day) can be worth a lot more than the additional gain you could receive from an illiquid investment.

However, caviling aside, there is some new information in the piece, namely, that funds that hold a fair number of positions in illiquid securities appear to seek out favorable valuations to turn months with negative returns into positive results:

Often stocks profiled are somewhat illiquid as well where patience is required to build a position.

The Staff of the SEC has taken the position that purchased dealer options are illiquid securities.

Without a liquidity option, shareholders who decide to exit their Avigen position for individual reasons (or those who view the final transaction unfavorably) will be forced to sell shares into an extremely illiquid market environment.

Private funds, although illiquid and subject to a broader range of risks, are in a unique position to generate yield for accredited investors.