Nor is it freedom for a management to ignore the trading
values of illiquid assets, because rating agencies and counterparties will still watch those factors, and a run on the company is as likely in a fog as on a sunny day.
Genesis Global Trading (Genesis), formerly the Trading Division of SecondMarket, has been facilitating transactions
of illiquid assets for over 10 years.
Financial institutions regularly have to estimate values for variety
of illiquid assets in a similar way.
Loads of illiquid assets like real estate holdings are slowing efforts by Trump's cabinet officials to divest, limiting the scope of the work they can do in the meantime.
Launched in October 2008 under Bush - era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson during the panic that followed the implosion of Lehman Bros., TARP was initially designed to prop up bank balance sheets via the government purchase of equity stakes or the
acquisition of illiquid assets.
Heisman said that in the last several years, an increasing
number of illiquid assets are being donated, including real estate, collectibles and other tangible property.
Pluris» proprietary LiquiStat database includes valuation data from recent
sales of illiquid assets: restricted stock, warrants, options, convertibles, auction rate securities, structured products, bankruptcy claims, private company stock, and limited partner interests.
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 wind - down process provided time for the prudent
disposition of illiquid assets, and has helped the fund nearly double in value over the last two years.»
In his March 2016 paper entitled «The Long - Term Returns to Durable Assets», Christophe Spaenjers summarizes long - term returns for three
types of illiquid assets since the start of the 20th century:
Risk that the Feds should care about is the toxic
mix of illiquid assets funded by liquid liabilities; long liability structures r safe $ $
In the event of a market run, ETFs could find it hard to pay back clients if they have large
amounts of illiquid assets on their books.»
Previously, there was a longstanding 15 % guideline that limits a mutual fund to aggregate
holdings of illiquid assets to 15 % or less of the fund's net assets.
This provides reasonable incentives for fair sale prices, and protection to taxpayers, while allowing banks to lighten their
inventories of illiquid assets.
Also
most of those illiquid assets (like timber) have pretty high entry investment minimums to start with, which are not suitable for the usual middle class investor.
Using a death benefit payout to cover taxes is especially prudent when your estate is primarily
comprised of illiquid assets that would need to be sold at a discount prior to maturity.