A wholesale deal may be relatively liquid if the wholesaler is able to find a buyer quickly, but it can also be
quite illiquid if they're unable to find a motivated buyer immediately.
Note that National Western is
quite illiquid.
I've been combing through the small caps to see what might be interesting to me these days but they are usually
quite illiquid and it's hard to get in and out of them.
Since real estate is
quite illiquid and there are high transaction costs associated with frequently buying and selling properties, it may be in your best interest to hold your real estate for a long time anyway.
Remember that some peer to peer loans may be
quite illiquid.
Not exact matches
Another big challenge for LPs is that they are asked to measure the performance of these
illiquid assets even though doing so is
quite difficult and may not be indicative of future real cash returns.
With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold
illiquid stock for
quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.
Now, it's true that I think the undisturbed stock price of IMS Health (a $ 2 - $ 3 billion, listed, liquid stock) was not
quite as cheap as the undisturbed stock price of Bancinsurance (a sub $ 50 million market cap, unlisted,
illiquid, and closely held stock).
Investors who participate in this RRSP meltdown procedure are then left holding an
illiquid, and often
quite risky, investment.
The investor who has participated in this type of meltdown is then left holding an
illiquid, and often
quite risky, investment.
Whilst most LIC's are
quite liquid (heavily traded enough to permit easy entry and exit) some are
illiquid and thinly traded.
Beyond that, how one values policy options and
illiquid assets makes
quite a difference.
Plus if dealing with an
illiquid stock it would be
quite stupid to place a market order.