I've gotten a huge number of emails and questions
on bond market liquidity in the last few months.
Not exact matches
Although last year was favorable for developing countries, investors remember the painful «taper tantrum» that ensued several years ago, when the Fed signaled it would begin pulling back
on its massive
bond purchases that kept rates low while injecting
liquidity in
markets.
BRVM aims to attract more institutional investors including pension funds to increase investment in its
bond market and lessen its dependence
on bank
liquidity.
The issue of
bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in
on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of
liquidity exasperating moves in financial
markets.
Although it is fair to say that the recent uptick in volatility has in part reduced earlier concerns about prolonged low volatility and associated reach - for - yield behavior, it has placed added focus
on the resilience of
liquidity, particularly in
markets, such as the
market for corporate
bonds, that may be prone to gapping between
liquidity demand and supply in stressed conditions.
Liquidity risk The vast majority of municipal
bonds are not traded
on a regular basis; therefore, the
market for a specific municipal
bond may not be particularly liquid.
Only with
bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual
bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically
bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade
bonds on the open
market (transaction costs can be larger for
bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of
liquidity).
Based
on this data, it is safe to say that recent withdrawals from
bond funds have had minimal impact
on broader
markets and
liquidity.
The average investment - grade (high - yield)
bond trades
on less than 32 % (36 %) of days over the prior six months —
liquidity in corporate
bonds was considerably lower than in traditional listed equity
markets.
In sovereign debt and, to an even greater degree, corporate
bond markets,
liquidity hinges in large part
on whether specialised dealers («
market - makers») respond to temporary imbalances in supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other
market participants.
Meanwhile,
bond markets are concentrating as key participants, such as asset managers, shrink in number but expand in size.8 As a result,
market liquidity may increasingly come to depend
on the portfolio allocation decisions of only a few large institutions.
This feature article draws
on recent work by the Committee
on the Global Financial System (CGFS) to investigate trends in
market - making and what they mean for the financial system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for
liquidity have changed in fixed income
markets, particularly in
markets for sovereign and corporate
bonds.
We all know that the massive reduction in dealer inventories and the cost of capital has had a huge negative impact
on liquidity in the corporate
bond market.
On the one hand, declining bond market activity and the persistence of low - risk arbitrage opportunities imply liquidity is impaired, while, on the other, low volatility and high demand for risky assets suggest that liquidity is alive and wel
On the one hand, declining
bond market activity and the persistence of low - risk arbitrage opportunities imply
liquidity is impaired, while,
on the other, low volatility and high demand for risky assets suggest that liquidity is alive and wel
on the other, low volatility and high demand for risky assets suggest that
liquidity is alive and well.
Market makers are expected to provide
on - demand
liquidity for a fee — a role only
bond dealers have and will continue to fill.
Bonds are subject to
liquidity risk, which may have an adverse impact
on a security's value and
on the fund's ability to sell such securities when necessary to meet the fund's
liquidity needs or in response to a specific
market event.
For this reason, the ocean of «
liquidity on the sidelines» in money
market funds is not a pool of money waiting to be invested in stocks or
bonds, but is instead a measure of how dependent U.S. borrowers are
on short - term debt.
the disclosure of certain enumerated events affecting a municipal security; these events include the following, if material: (1) principal and interest payment delinquencies; (2) non-payment related defaults; (3) unscheduled draws
on debt service reserves; (4) unscheduled draws
on credit enhancements; (5) substitution of credit or
liquidity providers; (6) adverse tax events affecting the tax - exempt status of the security; (7) modifications to rights of securities holders; (8)
bond calls; (9) defeasances; (10) release, substitution, or sale of property securing repayment; (11) rating changes; (12) failure to provide annual financial information as required; the MSRB, Electronic Municipal
Market Access (a.k.a. EMMA) provides free access to municipal disclosures, market data and edu
Market Access (a.k.a. EMMA) provides free access to municipal disclosures,
market data and edu
market data and education
Bond ETFs add incremental liquidity to the bond markets by allowing investors to trade shares on an excha
Bond ETFs add incremental
liquidity to the
bond markets by allowing investors to trade shares on an excha
bond markets by allowing investors to trade shares
on an exchange.
Large index ETFs, which have real - time net asset values (NAVs), have not helped this pricing problem in fixed income but, in parts of the fixed income
market where there is less
liquidity (such as high yield
bonds), sourcing issues can be more difficult — particularly in a
market sell - off where buyers may not be readily available with sufficient capacity to take
on bond inventory.
The muni
market isn't known for its
liquidity, so if you have a large number of
bonds being dumped
on the secondary
market, the whole
market cheapens up.
If the replacement
bond is going to be a Treasury, choose the off - the - run rather than the
on - the - run so that you're not paying for
liquidity premium, which is additional richness priced into the
on - the - runs due to the demand by the repo
markets.
Features Understanding What
Bond Market Liquidity Means for Your Portfolio The ability to buy and sell with ease can be transitory and depends on both the market for the asset and the size of the transa
Market Liquidity Means for Your Portfolio The ability to buy and sell with ease can be transitory and depends
on both the
market for the asset and the size of the transa
market for the asset and the size of the transaction.
Instead, they are very long term investors who have developed their own unique set of rules, and Dimensional Indexes, that are focused
on the factor research of Fama, French and other academics, as well as internal trading rules - based strategies that minimize
market impact costs and capture
liquidity premiums for being a patient buyer and seller of stocks or
bonds that meet their rules of construction.
However,
bonds offer much greater
liquidity as compared to fixed deposit accounts because certain types of
bonds can be traded
on the secondary
market.