Internationally, however,
illiquidity does not appear to offer a premium.
That said, an asset's
illiquidity does not speak to its return potential; It only means it may take more time to find a buyer to convert the asset to cash.
That said, an asset's
illiquidity does not speak to its return potential; It only means it may take more time to find a buyer to convert the asset to cash.
Not exact matches
It may be advisable to avoid investing in any investment vehicle that you don't understand, but this maxim is especially true in the case of annuities, because with the complexity comes additional expenses, tax consequences and
illiquidity handcuffs.
But to take it a step further, I prefer equities because real estate doesn't provide a sufficient
illiquidity premium to merit the leveraged risk and transaction cost.
There was never anything like this before in HKD or HIBOR, and it didn't happen last January, but Hong Kong banks and the city's monetary authority have been visited by extreme volatility and, yes,
illiquidity.
While I have my insurance license, I
do not sell them because I
do not think they are worth the risks &
illiquidity.
If this is representative of the endowment model, let me then say that the endowment model accepts
illiquidity risk more than most strategies
do.
In closing, don't worry about
illiquidity in the bond markets.
On the bright side,
illiquidity is usually associated with small sizes, so it doesn't affect most of the market.
When I was the risk manager for two life insurance companies, one of the first things that I
did was analyze the
illiquidity of my assets and liabilities, making sure I had liquidity adequate to fund illiquid assets.
One of the major problems this share has is its
illiquidity — it is virtually impossible to buy a decent number of them without paying well over the odds and this is a really hard problem to solve, Hence waiting a couple of months and having a good marketing push may not
do much to improve the share price — although it has improved a bit since the annual results and the AGM statement there has not been any great volume behind it and therefore no real upward momentum.
Many European banks bought them because they didn't have to put much capital against them for risk purposes, and the added yield helped them meet earnings targets, at a cost of greater
illiquidity.
By these measures, momentum,
illiquidity, and low - volatility strategies score badly, suggesting high trading costs and low capacity, while value and quality strategies tend to score well, as
do low - turnover strategies such as indexing, equal - weight, and Fundamental Index ™.
The liquidity - taking strategies, however,
do not fare as well on a trade - cost - adjusted basis: both the large - cap and small - cap momentum strategies and the large - cap
illiquidity strategy lose their attractiveness.
We don't offer access to pre-Initial Public Offering (IPO) shares, given the regulatory complexity and
illiquidity of the market.