"Property is an illiquid asset and this week shows what can happen to illiquid assets when the fundamentals/facts change," Deutsche Bank reminded clients.
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Two sources with knowledge of the matter said the proprietary alternative investment division will look for private equity deals and other illiquid investments, including illiquid debt and special situations.
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The new rates would be 14 percent for liquid assets and 7 percent for illiquid assets, up from 12 percent for liquid and 5 percent for illiquid in the original bill.
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The report offered two reasons why investors are fleeing into illiquid assets: to earn the higher return premia that illiquid assets offer, and most prominently, to escape the volatility of stocks and bonds.
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No matter how sophisticated they are, venture is too illiquid.
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The rules govern how to manage and disclose illiquid holdings.
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"In a downturn, industrial property is extremely illiquid," he said.
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Relatively illiquid, it had remained untraded for most of the session.
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Downgrades of stressed borrowers could force "fire sales" of illiquid loans.
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The Czech crown was so illiquid that it was hardly traded.
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By their nature, such markets are illiquid and more lightly regulated.
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The Woodford fund faced criticism of its investment in illiquid assets.
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It's illiquid, so when times are hard, you can't sell it.
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So were illiquid alternatives such as infrastructure and private equity funds.
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"The spot market has turned almost completely illiquid," another trader said.
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Trump, by contrast, mostly owns what are known as illiquid assets.
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"The spot market has turned almost completely illiquid," another trader said.
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These options are illiquid assets, and cannot be spent or saved.
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In practice, however, the contracts are too illiquid to allow wholesale hedging.
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Such trouble is especially likely with corporate bonds, which are inherently illiquid.
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First, they are relatively illiquid, being accepted only at willing local businesses.
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But these assets are illiquid, and backed by a lot of debt.
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Bitcoin is moving around so much because it is small and illiquid.
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THIS IS SORT OF ILLIQUID –THIS IS LIQUID, THIS IS HIGHLY LIQUID.
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Bitcoin is a relatively illiquid market, so its price is highly volatile.
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Others, with names like AnarchistCoin and CryptoPing, are illiquid and seldom used.
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That's why most people don't invest in highly illiquid real estate projects.
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Yes, granted, without an IPO, his holdings in Uber are mostly illiquid,...
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Woodford has come under fire for his over-exposure to illiquid assets.
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More investment managers are raising funds that invest in niche illiquid assets.
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That the continuing unwinding of quantitative easing will leave the markets illiquid?
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Its National Housing Bank will give extra support to illiquid housing lenders.
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Further, the investments themselves are complex and illiquid, as they involve real estate.
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The problem is that most of its assets are long-term, illiquid projects.
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That's intriguing, because Musk said in sworn testimony recently that he's financially illiquid.
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Illiquid assets will be automatically usable to secure credit, as Sweetbridge is doing.
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The cryptocurrency's exchange price is hugely volatile, perhaps because of its illiquid nature.
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If they fail to find an exit, all that illiquid capital could disappear.
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In other words, early-stage investing is typically a very illiquid asset class.
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Additionally, the 8 percent tax on non-cash earnings would affect illiquid holdings.
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Trading in illiquid, emerging market currencies was previously the mainstay of voice traders.
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In that case, workers with illiquid stocks can still hold off on taxes.
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Also, don't let the market become any more illiquid than it already is.
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In the terminology of modern banking, this is a single, undiversified and illiquid, portfolio.
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Revising the definition of an illiquid asset is "unnecessary and inconsistent," the LSTA said.
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And weeding out illiquid, badly run companies in unattractive sectors further shrinks the shortlist.
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Citi has said its trading operations functioned appropriately in a thin and illiquid market.
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About half was tied up in illiquid investments such as local firms and factories.
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"She took a liquid asset and turned it into an illiquid one," Rehl said.
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Your house is the most leveraged, illiquid, and undiversified investment you will ever make.
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Prices were extremely volatile, however, in one of the world's most illiquid debt markets.
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LCH developed SwapAgent as an alternative to pushing illiquid or unsuitable products into clearing.
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The Treasury has discussed the idea of refinancing illiquid bonds to improve market liquidity.
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Of course, securities-based loans, annuities and illiquid investments are right for certain clients.
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Market holidays in the U.K. and U.S. made trading slow and illiquid on Monday.
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For illiquid assets, like equipment or property, the tax rate would be 5 percent.
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For starters, private placements may tout double-digit rates of return, but they're illiquid.
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SPX, viewed as a partial proxy for the value of private equity firms' illiquid assets.
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The bank relies on collateral, often in the form of real estate, which is illiquid.
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BlackRock reported $47.2 billion in illiquid alternative assets under management at the end of 2017.
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That could spell a difficult scenario for creditors who may be left with illiquid bonds.
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"Historically, it's true this is an illiquid asset class," said Davies, during his CNBC interview.
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The add-on was also too small and illiquid to create a new standalone loan.
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The bonds were also aimed at long-term investors and, as a result, were illiquid.
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H2O Asset Management panicked its clients when it emerged that its funds held illiquid bonds.
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"Institutional Investors to Embrace Illiquid Assets...." That's how the headline of the announcement started out.
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Complex illiquid mortgage and mortgage-related securities — There's mystifying financial instruments — Help me out here.
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The UK bank named Juliano Mattar head of investor sales, local markets and illiquid credit.
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For illiquid assets, this is costly, because the fund can only sell at discounted prices.
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The Woodford Equity Income Fund was revealed to have twice breached the 10% limit for illiquid holdings imposed by U.K. watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and listed a number of small and illiquid holdings in the nearby island of Guernsey to circumvent regulation.
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Determine your risk tolerance, since your investment may be illiquid for a decade or even lost.
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Rather investors can find additional yield in the smaller and more illiquid segments of the market.
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The firm will initially focus on investments in private companies that are illiquid, according to filings.
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We had a record quarter of raising six billion dollars of illiquid alternatives in the quarter.
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The crisis of 2007-08 was the result of indebted institutions operating in an illiquid market.
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That means guarding against purchases made with too much borrowed money of illiquid assets, especially property.
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Much like Chinese banks, funds that invest in illiquid securities suddenly find themselves under extreme scrutiny.
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CLI has a handful of illiquid, legacy non-income producing assets that the company could monetize.
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These are illiquid investments, so it can be difficult to cash out if something goes awry.
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He will help develop and distribute illiquid credit instruments in both the primary and secondary markets.
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Meanwhile, bureaucrats would repeatedly find themselves having to value billionaires' art collections and other illiquid assets.
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The question is whether it spreads beyond the real estate sector to other illiquid British assets.
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The primary benefit of crossing securities is often afforded to the seller in an illiquid security.
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She was able to sell out of her position in April 2013, before funds became illiquid.
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"Don't let the market become any more illiquid than it already is," he argued on Twitter.
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This is not a strategy to reduce risk — some of these illiquid assets are very risky.
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Both will report to Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria, global co-heads of illiquid financial assets.
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The FCA also announced in September new rules for open-ended funds investing in illiquid assets.
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Market participants attributed some jitters to the inability to source paper in an illiquid secondary market.
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The higher this concentration, the higher the "contagion" from funds selling illiquid assets to other funds.
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A new 10% limit on the proportion of the fund that can be invested in illiquid assets is a material change from the current 13% limit and is broadly in line with Fitch's 'AAAmmf(chn)' rating criteria after reconciling differences in the definitions of illiquid assets.
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These are highly illiquid investments and they only increase, if you are right, over the long haul.
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Athletes' wealth makes them a target for elaborate real estate deals, limited partnerships and other illiquid investments.
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Buying a huge, illiquid asset like a house seems to fly in the face of this principle.
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Being a long-term investor, Nippon Life can afford to invest more in illiquid assets, Toda said.
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The rest is likely held in other, more illiquid assets like factories and equipment, the note said.
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Morningstar said H2O held "highly illiquid bonds" issued by several companies related to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst.
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Most insurance stocks, which are generally illiquid and therefore harder to exit, nosedived more than 6.0 percent.
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And this year, we've heard ofseveral asset managerssuch as Woodford and H20 struggle to offload illiquid assets.
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Once the former employees exercise their options, the stock they receive is often illiquid and not sellable.
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"These open-ended funds could be forced to sell illiquid assets to meet redemptions," the report noted.
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The special, one-time tax rate is 8 percent for illiquid assets and 15.5 percent for cash.
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Mr. Thiam said that he was not aware of the extent of the illiquid positions in October.
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Its inability to pay was linked to its large number of holdings in unlisted or illiquid companies.
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Harvard said it was in the process of restructuring its illiquid asset portfolio, but hasn't abandoned alternatives.
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By Hammond's logic, their highly liquid nature will make them the best performers against an illiquid backdrop.
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That cascaded into other currencies in illiquid markets, with Japan still on holiday after the New Year.
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Many bank assets, by contrast, are illiquid and long-term, such as loans to firms and homebuyers.
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He now reckons he can turn illiquid, hard-to-value assets without any cashflow into an investment.
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The selling quickly gathered momentum in illiquid markets, with Japan still on holiday after the New Year.
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It's true that the wealth tax would be a challenge for paper billionaires with illiquid private companies.
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Some of the companies it has invested in are illiquid and listed on an exchange in Guernsey.
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They invest in illiquid loans that are notoriously hard to sell, but offer daily redemptions to fund investors.
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"The Mexican stock market is already shrinking, it's already fairly illiquid, and this is another blow," Fraser said.
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Faced with an illiquid stock exchange and precarious banks, they have preferred to put their money into property.
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This "tokenization" might sound boring, but it could be a big business that unlocks trading of illiquid property.
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As seen many times before, when lots of investors buy an illiquid asset, the price can rise exponentially.
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The region's equity indexes eased somewhat, led by the illiquid Belgrade bourse, whose index shed half a percent.
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They will not want to risk a big shock by selling billions of bonds into an illiquid market.
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This, arguably, has simply added to this year's price volatility because the spot market is still highly illiquid.
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But the range of prices which can be found on cryptocompare shows this is a narrow, illiquid market.
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Other areas that need attention are post-trade transparency, Treasurys, the range of structured products and illiquid ETFs.
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Noble's bonds and credit default swaps are trading at depressed levels, but Alireza blamed this on illiquid markets.
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But analysts and money managers say more than half of that could be in gold and illiquid assets.
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He is accused of inflating the value of the investments and not identifying how some were highly illiquid.
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It will be sold into relatively illiquid conditions with many traders and investors away after Monday's Christmas holiday.
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Offshore trade of the riyal has become increasingly volatile and illiquid as a result, raising risks for banks.
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"The NDF market is now extremely illiquid," said Prashant Singh, lead portfolio manager with Neuberger Berman in Singapore.
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African bourses rely too heavily on stocks and bonds and investors usually say they are small and illiquid.
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It facilitates transactions by taking illiquid real estate properties and leases and converting them into tradeable, investable securities.
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The values of these illiquid assets will remain stable, and the pension fund managers can sleep at night.
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Goldman Sachs now offers clients small trades using an algorithm, which calculates executable prices on otherwise illiquid lots.
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Some market participants may not want to hold "illiquid paper with liquid terms," according to a credit manager.
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Like real estate art is also an illiquid asset, which means that it typically cannot be offloaded immediately.
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But an examination of the fund identified other pernicious forces: most notably, illiquid, opaque and high-cost investments.
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Collectible cars are illiquid assets, those that are not easy to sell, like a stock or a bond.
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Art is the first of five valuable but illiquid assets I plan to examine in the coming weeks.
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The third factor, "illiquidity concentration," captures how concentrated illiquid assets are in large funds with high flow sensitivity.
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It is illiquid because the Iron Throne is not capable of paying the funds back in the near future.
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"Although the Greek bond market is illiquid, the fact that yields are lower is a good sign," he added.
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The financial services firm named Michael Carley Jr as a director of fixed income credit, focusing on illiquid markets.
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So there may be a nasty shock in the next crisis when investors try to realise those illiquid assets.
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Level 3 securities are very illiquid assets that can't be given a fair value by usual market pricing processes.
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These are assets that are highly illiquid and cause many headaches to the people trying to properly value them.
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Roughly 20-30 percent of assets on the platform are illiquid holdings like alternatives and private shares, Poirier said.
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That annoyed investors, but helped ensure the funds are not forced to sell illiquid assets at fire-sale prices.
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He will set up Soros Capital, which will look at illiquid investments including venture capital, according to the report.
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Instead, those profits would be taxed at only 12 percent for cash assets and 0003 percent for illiquid assets.
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Instead, those profits would be taxed at only 15.5 percent for cash assets and 8 percent for illiquid assets.
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Illiquid and other hard-to-value assets allow individuals some wiggle room to inflate or deflate their net worth.
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Someone with a $500,303 portfolio could consider putting 10 to 20 percent in illiquid assets, including art, he said.
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Investors' worries have extended to other troubled northeastern banks, despite little trading activity in relatively illiquid interbank debt instruments.
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The paper from CRR looks at the returns of the Wilshire 5000, an index that includes highly illiquid stocks.
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They'll get a special one-time tax rate of 8 percent of illiquid assets and 15.5 percent for cash.
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When it comes to illiquid securities, extra caution is essential, as is clear documentation of the determining price factors.
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It will now trigger forced selling of the bonds into what is already a largely frozen and illiquid market.
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J. P. Morgan Private Bank markets its donor-advised fund as being able to handle illiquid and sensitive assets.
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Private shares can be illiquid and hard to price, raising concerns of whether they are appropriate for public portfolios.
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"People's wealth is often in things that are both incredibly difficult to value and incredibly illiquid," Sarin told me.
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Real estate properties are illiquid assets that don't change hands frequently and are costly and time-consuming to trade.
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As investors pulled out of his funds, Van Wagoner kept bumping up against the 15% cap on illiquid investments.
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Most loan funds hold more than 15% of their investments in loans that would be considered illiquid, he said.
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Chinese insurers' investments are predominantly in long-tenured, illiquid asset classes such as property, infrastructure projects and private equity.
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The illiquid assets include preference shares in four firms listed on the Guernsey stock exchange that have never traded.
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The margin rules aim to secure trades that are too complex or illiquid for exchanges and clearing houses to handle.
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The regulator also said inadequate supervision allowed CGMI traders to mismark illiquid positions and cover up $81 million in losses.
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"Sterling is going to be illiquid and choppy in either direction depending on the result," HiFX Chief Economist Chris Towner.
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Fine wine is expensive to store, and its rarity and high transaction costs make it—oddly enough—an illiquid asset.
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Someone with a $500,000 portfolio could consider putting 10 percent to 20 percent in illiquid assets, including art, he said.
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"If you're not prepared to be illiquid with the gain money invested for a decade, then don't play," Burwick said.
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The FCA had already said it was looking at how Woodford invested in illiquid companies on an exchange in Guernsey.
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On top of everything else, the market for them is relatively illiquid, which makes prices more susceptible to sudden jolts.
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But Fitch estimates just 10-20 percent of assets are illiquid, even in Qatar which has a big property portfolio.
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Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia's illiquid market, selling real estate to raise money does not look like a near-term option.
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Market players said there was no apparent news behind the move and that illiquid trading conditions may have exaggerated moves.
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Musk's massive donation announcement comes in the wake of reports that he is "financially illiquid," following a recent defamation lawsuit.
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The debt restructuring adviser has hired Zaman Khan and Christian Scharf to expand its illiquid financial assets practice in Europe.
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Noble's bonds and credit default swaps are trading at depressed levels, which Noble has said is due to illiquid markets.
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Price swings will be further amplified if asset managers find themselves stuck in illiquid markets during a broader sell-off.
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"Pangea is disrupting a famously illiquid market by giving investors the freedom to trade with other users instantly," Shaikh said.
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Since the suspension, efforts had been made to reposition the portfolio and offload substantial portions of unlisted and illiquid assets.
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REPATRIATION OF OVERSEAS EARNINGS: The Senate imposes a tax of 21 percent for liquid assets and 2600 percent for illiquid.
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Auctions on eBay gave value to enormous seas of illiquid assets … Some classes of illiquid assets, such as idle cars and briefly empty flats, found markets through Uber and Airbnb, liberating billions in value … the pattern is very clear: assets with a proper digital interface and history are more valuable than assets without them.
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We have a couple big funds that have the ability to have a small portion of their funds in illiquid privates.
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But partly because of a weak economy, the land market is almost illiquid, making it hard to turn property into cash.
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Second, investments tend to be illiquid—shareholders have to wait for a takeover or a stockmarket flotation to recoup their investment.
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But it delayed for six months another provision while it reconsidered key rules on how to identify and manage illiquid assets.
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WPCT, which also holds a high proportion of illiquid assets, said on Monday it may fire Neil Woodford as its manager.
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Central bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran said last week the monetary authority has been intervening to smoothen volatility in an illiquid market.
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WHO DOES THE CATEGORIZATION IS IT DONE BY THE FUNDS THEMSELVES AND ARE THEIR STRICT RULES TO DETERMINE THIS IS ILLIQUID .
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A second fund, which is supposed to finance pensions, holds a further $225 billion, but many of its assets are illiquid.
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It could also make more illiquid investments, including private equity-style bets on commodity-related businesses and trading physical commodities themselves.
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Under a venture capital investment, meanwhile, investors take an equity stake in a start-up, but the share itself is illiquid.
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Successful development of legacy real estate projects, and subsequent exit from these illiquid assets, could also be positive for the ratings.
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"This requires some method to price goods that are in illiquid markets," said Kyle Pomerleau, chief economist at the Tax Foundation.
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This is because sovereign investors have built exposure to illiquid assets such as real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private debt.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Illiquid assets are not included in China's foreign exchange reserves, central bank vice governor Yi Gang said on Sunday.
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Traders said relatively illiquid markets because of holidays across much of Europe and parts of Asia had exacerbated moves on Tuesday.
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Similarly, it said that inadequate supervision allowed the CGMI traders to mismark illiquid positions and cover up $81 million in losses.
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A filing from Monday by Unsworth's attorney refers to "Musk's sworn testimony that he is financially illiquid," according to Bloomberg's report.
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As a result, most startups (including the vast majority of unicorns) decide to stay private longer, thereby keeping their shares illiquid.
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Funds can only hold 15% of illiquid assets, which could have made it difficult to raise new open-end loan funds.
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Khan and Scharf will manage the growth of this business which helps financial institutions find solutions for non-core illiquid positions.
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That's good news for illiquid unicorns and their backers, provided that their companies are at least as healthy as Chicago's Sprout.
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The rule, intended to keep banks from speculating with their customers' money, limits the amount of illiquid investments firms can hold.
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Lehman was simply stuck with too many "illiquid" mortgage assets, and it couldn't sell them quickly enough to meet other obligations.
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"The very good news is that the Commission recognized that loans are not illiquid - they trade in a way that is liquid and the slower settlement times do not make them illiquid but pushes them into a category that is less liquid - and that certainly allows for the continued existence and issuance of loan mutual funds," said Ganz.
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On top, early-stage and growth funding has grown to unimagined heights, but it is one of the most illiquid assets classes.
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said that blockchain technology within financial services will be immensely valuable for anything that involves trading illiquid assets.
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At their worst, the forms of private ownership that are replacing them are illiquid, opaque, expensive and exclusively for the very rich.
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Another worry is the use of DAFs to convert illiquid assets, such as property or hard-to-price securities, into charitable dollars.
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Limits on the share of illiquid investments held in collective investment schemes already exist under British and European Union rules, Bailey said.
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One difference between Silicon Valley and other sectors, though, is that some of the wealth in tech is in illiquid startup stock.
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Under the final rules, funds would have to classify investments into the categories of highly liquid, moderately liquid, less liquid and illiquid.
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Unlike typical venture funds, HACK Fund will provide quick liquidity for investors, leveraging blockchain technology to make typically illiquid private stocks tradeable.
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The alpha [non-market-related return] of many hedge funds comes from investing in illiquid assets that mutual funds can't invest in.
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The fund has been criticised by Britain's markets watchdog for "sailing close to the wind" with its heavy investment in illiquid stocks.
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Morningstar had been particularly concerned about H2O's stakes in "highly illiquid bonds" issued by several companies related to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst.
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The reality is that bond indexes tend to hold hundreds or thousands of bonds, some of which are thinly traded or illiquid.
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The annual tax would also apply to illiquid investments like the value of a private company, real estate and other complex investments.
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This is a highly illiquid market at the best of times (with the holiday season upon us, it is even more so).
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"It would be tough for me to sell an illiquid position in a private company if there's a big problem," he said.
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Unlike shares in public companies, which can be easily sold if an investor wants out, stock in private ventures is largely illiquid.
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Treasury strategists say they expect to see volatile trading as investors make year end moves end in a very illiquid trading environment.
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At the bottom, he's broken out sums into liquid and illiquid totals, delineating how much of the above balances are easily accessible.
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"He seems to have learnt little from the financial crisis," Morgan said, pointing to the veteran investor's heavy investment in illiquid assets.
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At the same time, some investors no longer have the appetite to put their money in illiquid investments this year, they said.
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And even if it survives a legal challenge, valuation is likely to prove prohibitively challenging, and taxing illiquid assets presents serious problems.
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"Pouring a whole lot of extra cash into an illiquid asset isn't the most efficient use of your spare money," he said.
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It would impose two different rates: 3.5 percent on earnings invested in illiquid assets and 8.75 percent on cash and liquid assets.
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The European Union's rule on funds limits so-called unlisted or illiquid holdings to 10%, dubbed the "trash ratio" by industry insiders.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority is finalizing rules for funds investing in illiquid assets, but it was also a global issue, Brazier said.
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The main reason trading was suspended was to allow time for the fund to sell its stakes in unlisted and illiquid assets.
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The firm will initially focus on investments in private companies that are illiquid, or can be difficult to sell quickly, according to filings.
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For tech workers at startups with a portion of their compensation locked up in private, illiquid stock, the new rules are effective today.
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These angels can invest in illiquid companies with relatively less risk and lower exit potentials, making the home-run hitting mentality less relevant.
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New capital charges make it less attractive to hold onto risky positions – particularly illiquid assets that are hard to sell in a rush.
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There could also be a cap on the proportion of the portfolio that could be held directly in illiquid assets, the FCA said.
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Credit Suisse's illiquid investment limit is approved by its risk committee, according to the bank's Organizational Guidelines and Regulations report dated June 2014.
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As I've explored our own project, I've heard again and again of startups that failed because bitcoin is illiquid in the poorest countries.
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Without confidence that invested capital will be returned—and because Iraqi markets are generally illiquid—direct investment opportunities are limited for most investors.
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In a private investment, where shares are illiquid and relationships more important, you can only protect yourself from the unforeseen via the team.
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Venezuela's foreign reserves have stood around $10 billion recently, though some say as much as half of that may be in illiquid assets.
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An illiquid asset cannot easily be sold to meet unexpected spending needs (say, medical expenses) or to take advantage of better investment opportunities.
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Morningstar cut the ratings to 'neutral' on Wednesday, citing concern about the proportion of each fund's assets which were invested in illiquid stocks.
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The fund was unable to meet daily calls from investors for redemptions because it was unable to sell purportedly illiquid assets fast enough.
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It's not uncommon for top executives like Musk to be paid largely in potentially illiquid stock or options in the companies they lead.
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But we already have a wealth tax — the property tax — that hits widows on Social Security with an illiquid asset (the family home).
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With Greece and Cyprus still not part of the program and other debt markets illiquid, this may prove difficult or even impossible, however.
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Second, the trust is going to hold his preexisting illiquid, but very valuable business assets, the ones that everyone here is familiar with.
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Government-owned Mumtalakat Holding Company has an illiquid portfolio of mostly domestic assets with a balance sheet value of around 30% of GDP.
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Startup options give employees the right to purchase shares in the future and are illiquid, meaning employees cannot spend or save their options.
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Woodford is trying to sell illiquid assets to enable the reopening of his fund, which was frozen because it couldn't meet redemption requests.
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The St James's Place mandate did not fully replicate Woodford's equity income fund, which has come under fire for investing in illiquid stocks.
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The loans are effectively illiquid, however, as banks monitor their exposure and whether or not they will be forced to divest more Russian assets.
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Access to this previously illiquid asset has prevented early stockholders from financing the purchase of a new home or the education of their children.
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Another advantage is that commercial suppliers of DAFs accept not only cash but—unlike most non-profits—illiquid gifts, such as art or land.
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It's also highly illiquid, meaning that angels typically don't see a return on their investments until their portfolio companies go public or get acquired.
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The distinction is important for banks as it will shield these illiquid bonds from any potential mark to market loss should the yields rise.
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Central bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran last week said the monetary authority has been intervening in the market to smoothen volatility in an illiquid market.
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This raises "important questions" about how illiquid investments should be regulated, Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Britain's Financial Conduct Authority, said on Sunday.
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"Adverse news around high-margin H20 affiliate could prompt outflows and possible forced sales of illiquid positions," he wrote in a note to clients.
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The scheme also had the effect of deceiving investors into believing the bonds were relatively liquid, when they actually were entirely illiquid, prosecutors said.
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Getting out of an illiquid asset—as this week, when exchanges struggled to cope with trading volumes—can be harder than getting into it.
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It then terminated the fund, returned all the liquid assets to investors and put "significant resources" into realising the remaining illiquid assets, it added.
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The Fed can keep these excess reserves illiquid by paying a sufficient rate of interest on them and restricting the use of these tactics.
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There is a 10% cap on a fund's investments in illiquid assets, but the letter showed the watchdog had had concerns for some time.
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Morningstar, which provides analysis and ratings on funds, said H2O held "highly illiquid bonds" issued by several companies related to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst.
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An illiquid market for dollars, dollar buying by foreign banks to facilitate bond outflows and importer demand weighed on the currency, said the sources.
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The case against Calvert centered on illiquid, or hard to price, bonds issued by Toll Road Investors Partnership II LP, according to the SEC.
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"Foreign exchange intervention could also be considered if rapid exchange rate movements are the result of illiquid or one-sided markets," the report said.
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Though decline revenues tend to weigh on a company's share in general, Revlon's stock price slide is likely exacerbated by its illiquid equity pool.
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The SEC tries to protect against these issue, by saying that only 15 percent of a fund's total assets can be in illiquid investments.
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But most of their stocks trade "over the counter," which Cramer said makes them illiquid, highly volatile and too risky for him to recommend.
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Recent filings from a lawsuit against Elon Musk suggest that he testified that he is "financially illiquid," despite an estimated $23.7 billion net worth.
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"We are seeing an uptick of companies staying private longer, but also, clients seeking to borrow based on those illiquid positions," La Padula said.
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If you're buying into a volatile, illiquid corner of the market, you should be prepared for how your investment will react to new information.
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The idea is to limit the exposure retail investors have to those securities, with funds capped at 15% exposure to the most illiquid investments.
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Rotten market conditions didn't help, but illiquid assets that Credit Suisse remained in helped push the investment bank to almost $1 billion of losses.
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In one scheme, Platinum was accused of overvaluing its often-illiquid assets to collect higher fees, and falsely reporting annualized returns topping 17 percent.
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Even in a turbulent market turmoil, it suggested, the university would not have to sell illiquid assets at distressed prices to meet its needs.
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The trades, in a handful of small, illiquid stocks, were said to have inflated the fund's performance and generated extra fees for Mr. Wanger.
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Central bank President Roberto Campos Neto said earlier this month that any action in the FX market would be to alleviate illiquid trading conditions.
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Second, at the level of the VC's own investors, I think LP interests are likely to be tokenized, along with most other illiquid assets.
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PJT Park Hill, which is also working with Link, is continuing to explore a sale of the more illiquid assets, which include biotech stocks.
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"Illiquid assets" like real estate and investments of passion — including art — make up more than $1.9 trillion of the total, according to Wealth-X.
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The funds&apos stakes in these startups are relatively small, in part because regulations cap so-called "illiquid investments" at 15% of a portfolio.
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"Sterling fell sharply following a news event just after midnight UK time, when the GBP spot foreign exchange market was extremely illiquid," Citi said.
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"It's pretty illiquid, but at the right price people will love to have this credit," one former banker in the prime jumbo sector said.
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So this is Blockchain Capital, it's a VC fund, and VC funds are typically locked up for seven to ten years, relative illiquid assets.
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It is not clear that the government will get any quick infusion of cash: most of the settlements involve real estate or other illiquid assets.
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The cash-settled wheat futures have attracted regular volume, in contrast with CME's illiquid Black Sea wheat contract with physical delivery dating back to 2012.
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Earlier this week, H20 sold off some illiquid assets and removed entry fees across its funds as it tries to stem outflows of customer money.
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Goldman Sachs is the largest PEFoF manager, with almost $45 billion, and M&G Investments is the largest illiquid credit manager, with over $33 billion.
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In granting banks its final one-year extension last month, the Fed said it would soon provide details on how it will address illiquid funds.
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It touched a one-week high in the previous session after China, the world's top metals consumer said it would provide stimulus to illiquid firms.
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Phillips Edison, a privately held REIT whose shares are illiquid, is seeking shareholder approval later this week to consolidate its structure into a single entity.
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Illiquid assets, such as private-equity holdings, are not revalued in line with the price of publicly traded companies—"marked to market"—all that often.
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The FPC said about $30 trillion of global assets are now held in funds that offer short term redemptions while investing in potentially illiquid assets.
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And the stocks hedge funds have crammed into may not save them — in fact, the selling in an illiquid environment could do quite the opposite.
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AQR also made bets against companies linked to Woodford Capital, the fund run by Neil Woodford that blew up over illiquid investments earlier this year.
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In granting banks its final one-year extension last month, the Fed said it would soon provide details on how it will address illiquid funds.
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Illiquid assets are harder to sell quickly to meet redemption requests in a fund like Woodford's that allowed investors to withdraw their cash every day.
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LONDON, July 6 (IFR) - Debt restructuring adviser Houlihan Lokey has hired Zaman Khan and Christian Scharf to expand its illiquid financial assets practice in Europe.
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The illiquid state of the market also means that there is no motivation for sellside analysts to rate the bonds or otherwise give an opinion.
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The second part consists of unlisted and highly illiquid assets which will be sold on by LFS with the assistance of specialist brokerage Park Hill.
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If you went up a size or down a size or just experienced a fashion rethink, there was no recourse; your wardrobe was largely illiquid.
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Prior to that, Bhandari had worked at Middle Eastern private equity firm The Abraaj Group and US investment giant BlackRock, handling private and illiquid credit.
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The new tax plan imposes a one-time 15.5 percent tax on cash assets currently held overseas and a 85033 percent tax for illiquid assets.
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There was concern that loans could be classified as illiquid under the original 2015 SEC proposal, David Wang, an analyst at Moody's Investors Service, said.
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The holding of illiquid assets can be a problem for fund management firms like H2O, which allow investors to withdraw funds on a daily basis.
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With low or even negative returns from fixed income, and volatility in equity markets, there is growing appetite for illiquid assets that deliver steady, predictable returns.
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The Woodford suspension has provoked strong reactions from British politicians and led to a probe by regulators over the fund's exposure to unlisted and illiquid stocks.
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Economy minister Mohammed al-Tuwaijri told CNN this month that most assets seized in the purge were illiquid, such as real estate and structured financial instruments.
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And because it is small and illiquid, it is not yet a systemic risk as Sir John Cunliffe of the Bank of England recently pointed out.
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What it means: Asset-backed securities (ABS) are groups of mortgages, credit card loans or other typically illiquid assets pooled together and sold as one security.
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The LME tin contract is simply too illiquid to be on the radar of most funds, particularly the macro players who have led the bear charge.
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All the farmland REITs suffer from one key headwind related to stock market dynamics: They are small REITs and can be volatile and illiquid in trading.
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Prosecutors said Bloom used the bank's loan to help finance a "house" trading portfolio filled with risky and illiquid securities, and then concealed Sentinel's looming insolvency.
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Their advisers took $172,000 of the Kazdas' I.R.A. savings and put it in illiquid real estate investment trusts and later invested money in an options strategy.
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Elon Musk testified that he is "financially illiquid," a lawyer for the British diver Vernon Unsworth wrote in a legal filing, Bloomberg first reported on Wednesday.
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Thiam said on March 23 it had been unacceptable that he and his CFO could be surprised by the size of the bank's illiquid trading book.
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That poll suggested Britons had voted 52-48 percent to stay in the EU. In extremely volatile and illiquid trading, sterling was last quoted at $1.4560.
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No need to worry about whether your bank might fail, whether it might become illiquid or insolvent, or whether your deposit was over the insurance limit.
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The bill increased the tax rate for businesses that want to bring back money from overseas to 8 percent for illiquid assets and 15.5% liquid assets.
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Weeding out mid-caps and illiquid stocks may also alleviate worries about the trading suspensions and wild fluctuations that are common in China's retail-dominated exchanges.
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Companies with excess liquidity are buying housing stock as long-term investments; they rent them out to relatively illiquid families who prefer to rent than buy.
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"We aim for overlooked assets that we can know better than the majority of market players or small illiquid assets that institutions cannot enter," says Sender.
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It aggregates investor trading information, using technology that allows these firms to discretely see which dealers can facilitate illiquid trades without disturbing the markets and the price.
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"Adverse news around high-margin H20 affiliate could prompt outflows and possible forced sales of illiquid positions," wrote HSBC, as it downgraded Natixis to "hold" from "buy".
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Those concerns have prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to look more closely at how many liquid and illiquid assets ETFs should be required to hold.
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According to Robert Goodman of Goldman Sachs, insurers want to allocate more to better-yielding, but more illiquid, asset classes like infrastructure, private debt and private equity.
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A new platform that displays bids and offers would help many users who rely on the telephone market to trade small amounts or contracts that are illiquid.
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Illiquid credit, governance permitting, is another alternative way of diversifying sources of return and improving portfolio efficiency as part of both low-risk and return-seeking portfolios.
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"Open-ended funds are simply not suitable for illiquid assets such as commercial property," Danny Cox, a chartered financial planner at Hargreaves Lansdown, told CNBC via email.
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The government has said the process raised more than $100 billion, mostly in the form of land, stakes in businesses and other illiquid assets rather than cash.
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"Starboard has the product and market expertise that Apollo looks for in investment partners," said Rob Ruberton, global head of illiquid credit at Apollo, in the statement.
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"We would hope and would expect that institutional investors would appreciate the volatility that still exists within the underlying investments," he said in reference to illiquid alternatives.
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The FCA said the companies outsourced functions to unauthorised third parties, leading to recommendations that clients switch and transfer pensions to high risk, illiquid and unsuitable products.
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MIML said in a statement that in August 2014 it learned that the Artefact fund had made an illiquid investment, prompting MIML to suspend applications and redemptions.
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Carney also warned of the potentially destabilizing effect if foreign funds that invested in illiquid emerging market debt saw a surge in demand for withdrawals from investors.
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International taxes: One-time tax on U.S. companies' repatriated foreign profits; 12 percent rate on cash and a 5 percent rate on illiquid investments, per the WSJ.
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That, the government feared, could trigger an Indian debt market sell-off if mutual funds resorted to selling government securities because of an illiquid corporate debt market.
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Yes, granted, without an IPO, his holdings in Uber are mostly illiquid, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that he has... ways of getting cash.
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"Turnover (in the previously-illiquid BUBOR) was about 50 billion forints in the period between May to August on the one- and three-month horizons," Virag said.
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LONDON, Oct 11 (IFR) - Juliano Mattar has been appointed as head of investor sales for illiquid credit and local markets at Chinese-African lender ICBC Standard Bank.
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"Traders were cashing out of illiquid stocks because they aren't offering investors attractive valuations, even after the recent sharp price corrections," said a Riyadh-based portfolio manager.
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It was also during this illiquid period on October 7, 2016 that sterling collapsed 9% in early Asian trading, falling to around $1.14 from $1.26 within minutes.
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Profits held in liquid assets like cash would face a higher rate, while that held in illiquid asset like plants and property would face a lower rate.
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"Don't let the market become any more illiquid than it already is," he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, just before the Fed opened its two-day meeting.
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"For absolute clarity, our aggregate exposures to illiquid assets are strictly limited to between 5% and 10% of each of these three funds' net assets," he said.
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All governments can do now is bridge the gap by keeping illiquid firms solvent, preventing a seizure of credit markets and cushioning the demand drop, it reckons.
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"We have looked at risks posed by the promotion of speculative illiquid securities, both before and after LCF," the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in a statement.
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There is a fundamental truth on Wall Street: You can't take a group of illiquid securities and put them in a wrapper and suddenly make them liquid.
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As I discussed with David Sacksrecently, the rise of cryptocurrencies is going to bring about the "tokenization" of a number of illiquid (as well as liquid) assets.
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The agency also said earlier this week that its examiners plan to more closely scrutinize mutual funds, ETFs and private funds that are exposed to illiquid securities.
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The sale of such illiquid assets can take time and add to investor angst in the meanwhile, placing even more pressure on the manager to sell property.
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Britain's markets regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said at the time of the suspension that a fifth of the fund's assets were in such illiquid assets.
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As part of the transition, there will be a one-time tax on overseas profits of 8% on illiquid assets and 15.5% on liquid assets such as cash.
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Only six months ago Italy's smaller firms were off limits for overseas investors, who feared political turmoil in the euro zone could leave them trapped in illiquid stocks.
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The RBI is also expected to announce on Tuesday more technical measures, including making it easier for banks to pledge illiquid bonds with it in exchange for cash.
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"Thiam himself stated that continually raising the internal risk limits led to larger exposures to illiquid CLO and distressed debt investments and resulted in the writedowns," Schofield wrote.
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The other concerned a trader mismarking illiquid positions and unauthorized proprietary trading by Citigroup Global Markets Inc (CGMI) from 2013 to 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
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Officials at Japan's top 10 life insurance companies told Reuters they also plan to allocate more funds to illiquid, alternative assets, such as infrastructure finance and private equity.
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A key issue is that the private market for bad loans is small and illiquid, resulting in excessively low prices, discouraging banks from offloading them at significant losses.
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"It's a pretty illiquid day Monday ... so I don't think expectations for fireworks are too high," said Rick Meckler, partner, Cherry Lane Investments in New Vernon, New Jersey.
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There are around 40 global currencies that are considered exotic or illiquid, most of them in frontier markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle-East, according to Oyetayo.
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Like any investment that is less marketable as a result of an illiquid market, stock that is less likely to be valuable and/or marketable should be discounted.
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Limits for exposures where the risk profile changes more infrequently, as with illiquid investments, are monitored on a monthly basis, the bank said in its 2015 annual report.
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He said in an interview that he had solutions for many of the concerns and criticisms of the plans, including how to value private companies and illiquid assets.
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Elon Musk testified that he is "financially illiquid," a lawyer for the British diver Vernon Unsworth wrote in a legal filing, Bloomberg's Dana Hull first reported on Wednesday.
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Even President Donald Trump has vented about QT. "Don't let the market become any more illiquid than it already is," Trump tweeted to the Fed on December 18.
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China's wealth-management industry is the fastest-growing in the world but has historically been linked to the sale of high-risk, illiquid products and lax regulatory oversight.
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Elon Musk testified that he is "financially illiquid," according to a legal filing written by the lawyer for British diver Vernon Unsworth, who is suing Musk for defamation.
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This would essentially result in a Treasury "supply shock" as these funds reduce their positions & force dealers to sell those positions in a very illiquid market, Cabana said.
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"This would essentially result in a Treasury "supply shock" as these funds reduce their positions & force dealers to sell those positions in a very illiquid market," Cabana said.
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Separately, the Fed has delivered a massive amount of monetary stimulus that has helped ease up some of the problems in illiquid credit and even the Treasury market.
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Many alternative investments are illiquid and difficult to assess; because a fund's fees are based on these valuations, it is imperative that they are not overstated, he said.
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Mr. Coleman, the lawyer who has helped organize several small funds, said people really needed to consider the emotional component of investing in such high-risk, illiquid investments.
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Defaults of some illiquid, high-yielding bonds in Singapore last year also cast the spotlight on the role of wealth managers in "pushing" the products, the sources said.
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Woodford was forced to freeze his equity income fund as he could not sell some of its more illiquid assets quickly enough to meet a stream of redemption requests.
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Miller also said that retail investors had been sold a liquid fund which was in fact illiquid, and accused the U.K. regulator of failing to look at property funds.
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One divorce calculator shows that there could be less money to go around under the new tax rules — which may put more pressure on the valuations of illiquid assets.
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Think of this: What do some of the countries trading in their national currencies (ostensibly to avoid the dollar for political reasons) do with these illiquid and inconvertible assets?
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Single-name corporate CDS is particularly illiquid in Asia, but traders will watch the CDS with interest since Noble has been the target of short-sellers in the past.
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"So, for example, we do not intend to ban open-ended funds holding illiquid assets or prevent retail investors from acquiring units in open-ended property funds," it said.
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"We do not intend to ban open-ended funds holding illiquid assets or prevent retail investors from acquiring units in open-ended property funds," the FCA said on Wednesday.
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Light synthetic crude from the oil sands for April delivery surged to $4.00 a barrel over the West Texas Intermediate benchmark in illiquid trade, according to Shorcan Energy brokers.
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Miller said the FCA should ban funds from which investors can redeem daily or weekly from investing any further money into unlisted or illiquid stocks or directly-held properties.
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The sale will initially address Woodford's illiquid assets which will be bundled into multiple portfolios to be auctioned off to hedge funds and secondary market funds, the source said.
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"The cut to the lending facility rate was to lower banks' costs of being illiquid, which is one of the central banks' best practices," said Deputy Governor Mirza Adityaswara.
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The solution may be far from ideal, however, as it still leaves BPI - and likely soon Caixabank - with a large illiquid stake in a bank it does not control.
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"In the short term, more speculators could jump on the bandwagon and drive the price even higher, especially as the palladium market is very small and illiquid," it said.
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Roche's illiquid voting stock rose 1.2 percent and its non-voting stock was up 1 percent, in line with a 1.1 percent gain in the European sector index .SXDP.
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This involves representing ownership shares of traditionally illiquid assets like real estate or debt equity onto a blockchain so that such shares could be traded and transferred more easily.
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SUBTLE DIFFERENCES FROM CROSSING CASE INVOLVING HAMLIN CAPITAL The Putnam case was similar to the Hamlin Capital case in that improper crossing of illiquid securities was a central charge.
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Families have often been reluctant to take their companies public for fear of losing control and because of concern about how the Gulf's illiquid markets would value their shares.
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In one scheme, prosecutors said, Platinum overvalued the often-illiquid assets of its flagship fund and used money from new investments to pay out redemptions to select earlier investors.
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Under the final rules approved unanimously by the SEC's three commissioners, funds will have to classify investments into the categories of highly liquid, moderately liquid, less liquid and illiquid.
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Many feel the adoption of such a drastic measure in an already illiquid mid-market space is unnecessary, as direct lenders operate differently to lenders in the syndicated market.
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Worries over low liquidity have grown as ETFs in relatively illiquid areas, like emerging markets debt and high-yield corporates, have seen some of the biggest inflows this year.
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Firms will also need to certify that the funds meet the definition of illiquid and lay out a plan for divesting or making the investments conform to the rule.
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An investment can become illiquid when the market drops as the number of buyers dries up, and sellers have to learn to be patient to avoid taking a loss.
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London-based H23O has since sold some illiquid assets and stopped charging entry fees on its funds until further notice in an attempt to stem outflows of customer money.
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Like its illiquid Black Sea wheat contract from 2012, European Union wheat futures launched by CME in 2016 in a challenge to Euronext's established market have failed to take off.
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However, the bank's management is keen to shift focus from the recap to the restructuring and hopes investors will jump at the chance to switch out of small, illiquid securities.
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"We have specific concerns where this advice involves movement of pension pots to unregulated, high risk, illiquid products, whether they are based in the UK or overseas," the FCA said.
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Exotix Partners, an investment firm for frontier and illiquid markets, downgraded its recommendation on some of Ghana's debt to hold from buy, pending the government's response to its fiscal situation.
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"These holdings are illiquid, so that presents some risk because they can't be sold until after an IPO," said Katie Reichart, a senior analyst with Morningstar, which tracks mutual funds.
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In a response to Morgan published Wednesday, HL CEO Chris Hill documented the stockbroker's efforts to exert pressure on Woodford to reduce the percentage of illiquid holdings in the fund.
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South Africa's rand tumbled to a fresh record low against the U.S. dollar in erratic Asian trade on Monday, with dealers talking of Japanese sellers in a very illiquid market.
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You get this blue-chip investor, [but] people realize, many months later, that it has to [report] the value of its illiquid investments [including marking] down your company 35 percent.
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A combination of uncertainty over the path of interest rates, collapsing oil prices, pressure on illiquid junk bonds and decelerating growth in China could destabilize the market, according to Sass.
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Engel said the defendants should not have let the fund invest "deeply" in illiquid assets, and should have sold liquid assets while they had a chance to meet redemption demands.
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Currently, the fund's holding of illiquid securities as a percentage of assets stands at a single-digit level, and its cash/dry powder stands at roughly 15 percent of assets.
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Then a sudden spike in the yen in relatively illiquid conditions triggered stop-loss orders and brought the Japanese currency as low as 109.42 from a session high of 110.235.
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Starting in 2015, newly named Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam and his finance chief, David Mathers, were caught off guard by the scale of their trading division's illiquid trades.
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The bank took actions to protect clients from the brunt of the crisis, including to purchase some illiquid securities from clients so these individuals would not suffer a cash crunch.
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A Bloomberg report on Wednesday said that filings in the suit indicate that Musk told the diver's lawyers he was "financially illiquid," or short on cash or easily sold assets.
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But a review of PSBC's 187.423-page prospectus, issued late on Monday, reveals the bank's growing exposure to illiquid alternative assets that could pose a risk to its balance sheet.
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But these exacerbated his troubles once the redemption requests came in, causing his fund to fall foul of rules on the proportion of illiquid assets it was allowed to hold.
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"The shares that are likely to be excluded are illiquid in the first place so few investors are trying to sell them now," said Hiroyuki Fukunaga, chief executive of Investrust.
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The sanctions are more severe than those imposed in 2014 after Russia's annexation of the Crimea, as the first forced disposal of now illiquid Russian debt will bring losses for lenders.
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U.S. S&P3303 mini futures rose 0.5 percent, but market holidays in the world's two biggest financial centres — London and New York — could make trading slow and illiquid for the day.
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Investors and the LSTA also asked that the SEC keep its definition of an illiquid asset, as a proposed change to take into account settlement times could negatively impact the market.
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Banking shares have been underperforming the general index over the last several months as an illiquid construction sector - which makes up a large portion of corporate loans - weighed on market sentiment.
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He said other negative catalysts that could destabilize stocks include sharp losses in energy, pressure on illiquid junk bonds, decelerating growth in China and uncertainty over the direction of interest rates.
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The idea is similar to one with its own name: narrow banking, which calls for all consumer deposits to be backed by safe government debt, rather than illiquid long-term loans.
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Well, in a recent court filing, Musk told lawyers representing Unsworth that, despite his massive stock holdings in Tesla and SpaceX, he was financially illiquid, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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"BI prefers to do their intervention through DNDF now, but most of the offshore traders are seeking dollar in the spot market, which currently is a bit illiquid," the trader said.
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STOCKHOLM, April 18 (Reuters) - Sweden could set up a sovereign wealth fund as a way of solving its illiquid bond market problem, Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said in a Reuters interview.
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Young noted, however, that illiquid alternatives can also be volatile without it being obvious, since they lack daily pricing and as a result may give the perception of being less volatile.
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The SEC said Pirrello gave Avent $50,000 in cash, provided investment advice and helped him raise $250,000 by selling an illiquid investment, while Penna paid $21,500 toward Pirrello's credit card bills.
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The problem for employees is that a lot of their net worth is locked up in stock that is illiquid except through secondary offerings, which requires them to relinquish their shares.
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said late on Monday it had found a number of private funds and discretionary accounts with concentrated, illiquid and interconnected investments that had "irregular features".
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Typically for bitcoin, which at less than nine years old is still highly volatile and illiquid compared with traditional currencies and assets, the precise reason for its recent tear was unclear.
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On a political level, conservatives typically argue against estate taxes (or as they call them, "death taxes") by citing the supposed problems of family farmers and other owners of illiquid assets.
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U.S. S&P500 mini futures rose 0.3 percent, but market holidays in the world's two biggest financial centres — London and New York — could make trading slow and illiquid for the day.
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However, one potential way around this is to allow the owner of the illiquid asset to defer the mark-to-market tax until he or she sells the holding, Wamhoff said.
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IH Holdings, an illiquid stock which was previously listed in Guernsey but did not trade, is also a large holding in the Woodford 3 billion pound ($3.88 billion) equity income fund.
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According to Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan's head of macro quantitative and derivatives strategy, more than half of the sell-off can be attributed to systematic trading programs that operated in illiquid markets.
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More than a decade removed from the financial crisis, investors are looking for "complex, illiquid strategies" that private-equity firms provide, Munson said, as liquidity has become less of a concern.
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HM. Foreign companies and their advisers have grumbled over the idiosyncratic two-stage divestment process, including the initial, limited IPO that has meant the price of illiquid Sabeco shares has rocketed.
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Then there's the operational piece of transferring ownership of the property, which Flat says can take up to eight months and is a notarized process — making the overall experience incredibly illiquid.
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The events surrounding Woodford have prompted the Bank of England to consider how a fund's redemption terms can better reflect the difficulty of selling illiquid assets, such as commercial real estate.
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Little surprise, therefore, that the Japanese currency on Thursday had its best day since May 2017 after a flash crash in illiquid Asian trading briefly slammed the dollar below 105.00 yen.
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The most notable mover in illiquid trading was UK inkjet printer technology maker Xaar, whose shares fell 15.8 percent to the bottom of the small-cap index after a profit warning.
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Still, bond yields across the single currency bloc edged down as markets reopened after the Christmas holiday, reflecting a preference by investors to hold onto safe-haven bonds in illiquid markets.
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Under the rules funds have to classify investments into the categories of highly liquid, moderately liquid, less liquid, and illiquid, and also would be permitted to classify investments by asset class.
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The top securities regulator initially proposed the rules in 2013, and then revised the proposal last April in an effort to better fit the highly illiquid derivatives markets that the SEC oversees.
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His concerns center on ETFs that track illiquid assets, particularly high-yield corporate debt or that issued in emerging markets, where a bond may not trade in size for weeks or months.
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Many attribute the recent rise to a series of proposals that would allow investors to purchase portions of bitcoins as stock, adding more money to what has been a comparatively illiquid marketplace.
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Under the new law, companies with earnings parked offshore will face a one-time tax of 15.5 percent on cash and equivalents and 8 percent on illiquid assets, payable over eight years.
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"The transaction costs for issuing and managing such tokens are close to zero, investors can buy and trade equity in private companies and it makes essentially illiquid assets immediately liquid", said Adamovicz.
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Woodford is trying to adjust his portfolio by selling illiquid assets to raise cash to reopen the fund, which its administrator said this week is likely to remain shut until early December.
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The BOE said its concerns centred on funds that focused on illiquid assets such as commercial property and some corporate or emerging market bonds, rather than company shares that are easily traded.
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The BoE said its concerns centred on funds that focused on illiquid assets such as commercial property and some corporate or emerging market bonds, rather than company shares that are easily traded.
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Eddie Lim, founder of Point, believes that his company can not only help individual homeowners get access to traditionally illiquid assets in times of need, but can help the overall housing market.
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Then a sudden spike in the yen in relatively illiquid conditions triggered stop-loss orders and brought the Japanese currency as low as 210 per dollar from a session high of 21.1129.
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Woodford is trying to adjust his portfolio by selling illiquid assets to raise cash to reopen the fund, which its administrator said last month is likely to remain suspended until early December.
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"When you have illiquid investments, you can say that you're worth a lot more," said Brett Danko, a certified financial planner and managing member of Main Street Financial Solutions in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
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Rather, the lobbyists said they want a lower, bifurcated rate of 295 percent on earnings already invested abroad in illiquid assets, such as factories, and 8.75 percent on cash and liquid assets.
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And what army of accountants, appraisers and analysts will be required to do the necessary work on valuing the illiquid investments, private companies, stock options and other investments to assure timely compliance?
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He merged the two groups in a second revamp in the spring after roughly US$980m in writedowns, due to illiquid positions held by traders in the two groups, had been announced.
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Top corporate executives like Musk often receive most or even all of their compensation in the form of potentially illiquid stock or options in the companies they lead, rather than in cash.
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"The front end of the market had been illiquid," Tom Simons, money market strategist at Jefferies & Co in New York said of reduced lending with the looming end of the second quarter.
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The final rules also exempt "in kind" exchange-traded funds, those that honor redemptions in securities instead of cash, from requirements on how many highly liquid and illiquid assets they can hold.
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In the same vein, the rules kept a requirement that no more than 15 percent of assets could be classified as illiquid, but did not prescribe a fix for passing that bar.
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Hostplus is also keen to invest in unlisted infrastructure and real estate assets, which combined account for around a quarter of the portfolio, due to the fund's strong tolerance of illiquid assets.
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BlackRock Advisers will take charge of selling the fund's listed assets while PJT Partners will continue with its previously agreed role in helping to sell the fund's highly illiquid assets, Link said.
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Retail broker Saxo Bank said on Monday that it was increasing its margin requirements on certain currency pairs in the run-up to the U.S. elections, anticipating volatile and illiquid trading conditions.
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The U.S. Treasury proposed regulations for repatriating those profits, held abroad for decades, at special low tax rates of 15.5 percent on cash and cash equivalents and 8.0 percent on illiquid assets.
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REPATRIATION: Sets a one-time mandatory tax of 8 percent on illiquid assets and 15.5 percent on cash and cash equivalents for about $2.6 trillion in U.S. business profits now held overseas.
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There is no such deferral under the new law and accumulated overseas profits will now be taxed at either 15.5 percent for cash holdings or at 8 percent for more illiquid investments.
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The Income Focus fund "doesn't have any exposure to illiquid or unquoted securities", a Woodford spokesman said in an email, adding that it contains "a combination of large, mid and small-sized companies".
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It is pulling out of distressed credit, European securitized products trading, and long-term illiquid financing altogether, and it is cutting in businesses including flow credit, US securitized products trading, and equity derivatives.
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While scores of digital currency hedge funds have been launched this year, institutional investors worry that bitcoin is too lightly regulated, too volatile and too illiquid to risk investing other people's money in.
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In one scheme, Hein said Platinum overvalued the often-illiquid assets of its flagship hedge fund, reported false annualized returns topping 17 percent and selectively paid out cash to some investors over others.
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That followed months of turmoil as Woodford scrambled to sell the fund's unlisted and illiquid shares to raise cash to pay back investors who wanted to exit, a restructuring that severely hit WPCT.
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That makes it difficult to know the true value of the bonds, and the E.T.F. issuers must therefore rely on services that determine prices for illiquid bonds based on corporate and market developments.
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Pragma has just launched an algorithm to trade non-deliverable forwards, derivatives used to hedge exposure to illiquid currencies, especially in emerging markets, according to Curtis Pfeiffer, chief business officer at the firm.
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Real estate managers continue to have the largest share of pension fund assets with 40%, followed by PEFoFs (20%), hedge funds (10%), private equity (9%), infrastructure (393%), FoHFs (7%) and illiquid credit (4%).
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The possible changes are aimed at making it easier to trade illiquid stocks, making more trading information available to investors, and improving the speed and quality of public data feeds needed for trading.
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Neil Woodford's use of illiquid assets shows "he seems to have learnt little from the financial crisis," lawmaker Nicky Morgan, chair of parliament's Treasury Select Committee, told an Investment Association conference on Wednesday.
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The Association of Investment Companies (AIC), a trade body for closed-ended investment companies told CNBC via email that closed-ended investment company structure is well-suited to illiquid assets such as property.
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney also flagged ongoing concerns about illiquid investment funds, liquidity shocks, crypto-currencies and environmental dangers at a half-yearly update on the risks facing Britain's banking system.
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The FCA is considering new rules on illiquid assets in open ended funds, saying it will draw lessons from Woodford, with the watchdog's research signaling that for now, ETFs are in the clear.
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To buy the illiquid bonds, Galanis arranged for two co-defendants to use about $40 million belonging to clients of investment advisers Hughes Capital Management Inc and Atlantic Asset Management LLC, prosecutors said.
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Thiam said on Wednesday he has total confidence in finance chief David Mathers and global markets head Tim O'Hara after large illiquid trading positions pushed the bank to accelerate its cost-cutting plan.
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A 48-page criminal indictment said since 2012, Nordlicht and four other defendants defrauded investors by overvaluing illiquid assets held by its flagship Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage funds, mostly troubled energy-related investments.
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Demand by institutional investors to increase exposure to the more illiquid strategies favoured by Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has increased strongly in recent years as returns in some more traditional markets have waned.
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"Bitcoin prices are volatile; the transaction speed is slow; the bitcoin trading platform is illiquid," he said, noting that, unlike stock exchanges, the bitcoin exchanges are generally not well regulated by the government.
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Pragma has just launched an algorithm to trade non-deliverable forwards, derivatives used to hedge exposure to illiquid currencies, especially in emerging markets, according to Curtis Pfeiffer, chief business officer at the firm.
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But it can be virtually impossible for executives or founders at private start-ups, many of whom have preferred stock or founders shares that are illiquid until a sale or initial public offering.
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LONDON, March 20 (LPC) - While fears over the coronavirus outbreak grow, direct lenders have limited choice but to hold onto their illiquid portfolios as the exit routes in mid-market lending remain limited.
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"However, investors will still be incurring high costs for the winding up of the fund, particularly selling off the illiquid assets," explained Ryan Hughes, head of active portfolios at investment platform AJ Bell.
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Companies' current offshore earnings would be taxed at rates of 22019 percent for liquid assets and 8 percent for illiquid assets, which are higher rates than in both the House and Senate bills.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Trading in Neil Woodford's 3.7 billion pound ($4.69 billion) Equity Income Fund may not be reopened swiftly after it was suspended on June 3 because of the illiquid assets it holds.
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They oversee securities trading, debt origination and leveraged finance, units that came under fire on Wednesday as CEO Tidjane Thiam said he had been caught off-guard by steep losses on their illiquid positions.
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Then, on Wednesday, they used hacked users' accounts to drive up the price of a relatively illiquid coin called Viacoin (ticker: VIA) and syphoned the gains into a number of accounts under their control.
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While many robo-advisors have emerged over the past few years, the vast majority focus on investing in equities through low-cost exchange traded funds, rather than illiquid alternative assets such as P2P loans.
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The debt could be 'distressed' or in the form of high-grade private placements that are only illiquid because they were sold to family offices and institutions that tend to hold investments to maturity.
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Thiam said a combination of high costs, exposure to illiquid inventory in fixed income, "historically low levels of client activity" and challenging market conditions had led to disappointing results at the Global Markets division.
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These attract insurers struggling during an era of low interest rates as they typically offer higher returns, but are typically illiquid or less liquid, with no deep market, thereby making them difficult to price.
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In an assessment that raised little in the way of new concerns, the BOE confirmed it would intensify its focus on risks such as illiquid investment funds, liquidity shocks, crypto-currencies and environmental dangers.
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In an assessment that raised little in the way of new concerns, the BoE confirmed it would intensify its focus on risks such as illiquid investment funds, liquidity shocks, crypto-currencies and environmental dangers.
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Regulatory experts say that if the S.E.C. does decide to crack down on Third Avenue, it will be related to pricing and whether portfolio managers set prices too high for the most illiquid bonds.
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MATHISEN: AS I READ QUICKLY THROUGH THE RELEASE, IT INDICATES THAT THE FUNDS WOULD BE CAPPED AT SOMETHING LIKE 15% OF THEIR ASSETS AS ILLIQUID AND THEY HAVE TO COME BACK DOWN TO THAT.
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A reasonable reaction to this might be to wonder how a mortgage lender values a mostly illiquid asset like a restricted stock unit, and ultimately forms a judgement of the borrower's ability to repay.
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It also sets a one-time tax for companies to repatriate more than $2.6 trillion now held overseas, at rates of 15.5 percent for cash and cash-equivalents and 8 percent for illiquid assets.
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"The rating upgrade - I don't think it was fully priced in by the market, although it's hard to draw any conclusion about the illiquid Greek bonds," said KBC rate strategist Mathias van der Jeugt.
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At the time of the IPO this week, that stake — held in a family trust called MTB Illiquid — amounted to 20073 percent, according to the prospectus, though individual family members hold some additional shares.
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"Investors are looking for bargains in an illiquid market (today)... If Trump gets over trade issues with China expect economic demand to surge," said Jonathan Barratt, chief investment officer at Probis Securities in Sydney.
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In one scheme, Platinum, whose investors included many people from New York's Jewish community, was accused of overvaluing its often-illiquid assets to collect higher fees, and falsely reporting annualized returns topping 17 percent.
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"Based on docs, leverage and pricing you would think you are about to do a US$2bn solid, liquid loan but in reality it is a tiny, illiquid European deal," the syndicate head said.
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U.S. S&P500 mini futures rose 0.4 percent in Asian trade, but market holidays in the world's two biggest financial centres — London and New York — could make trading slow and illiquid for the day.
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It also sets a one-time mandatory tax of eight percent on illiquid assets and 15.5 percent on cash and cash equivalents for the about $2.6 trillion in U.S. business profits now held overseas.
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An increasingly large amount of money is ending up inside complex illiquid derivatives — like obscure commercial mortgage derivatives — that are so thinly traded there may not be a pool of buyers when prices decline.
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Filings by the lawyer for the plaintiff in a recent defamation lawsuit against Elon Musk say Musk testified that he's "financially illiquid," despite the Tesla CEO's multi-billionaire status, Business Insider's Mark Matousek reported.
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"Liquid and illiquid is for early retirees because if they have $200,000 tied up in their house, that won't be counted as income in the future and could affect their withdrawal strategies," he said.
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The criteria have also simplified some of the agency's assumptions such as the quick sale adjustment which is no longer differentiated between property types and the removal of the high threshold for illiquid property.
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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - H2O, one of French bank Natixis' asset management businesses, has sold off some illiquid assets and removed entry fees across its funds as it tries to stem outflows of customer money.
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Meanwhile, investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown removed the Equity Fund, which has come under fire for investing in unlisted and illiquid stocks, from its 'Wealth 50' list and cut its exposure to the Income Focus fund.
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Such requirements are important for Islamic banks as many have high exposure to real estate in both their investment and financing activities, coupled with the illiquid and cyclical nature of the asset class, CIBAFI said.
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The unit is expected to record a 2346 to 211 percent drop in first-quarter revenues and is selling off holdings of illiquid assets that the bank's senior management had not had on its radar.
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Due to the way ETFs are priced, their bid/ask spreads can sometimes be wide—especially for those that trade infrequently or track niche segments of the market in which the underlying assets are illiquid.
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Some are domestic assets which could be hard to sell to foreign buyers in crisis conditions, while another portion is tied up in "illiquid" foreign assets that could not be sold quickly to raise cash.
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The funds ran out of cash when investors who feared property prices would collapse demanded their money back, triggering calls for a reform and for a ban on such funds holding illiquid assets like property.
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The decisions highlighted the mismatch between the open-ended nature of such funds—allowing retail investors to buy and sell on a daily basis—and the illiquid assets they hold: office blocks and shopping centres.
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Making Deutsche Bank's ratio more troubling is that many of these assets are of the most illiquid variety, called Level 3 securities, for which establishing a price is guesswork and finding a buyer near impossible.
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LONDON, May 22 (LPC) - Leveraged loan borrowers are shying away from sterling in the run up to Brexit, instead opting to raise euros or dollars with swaps in place, restricting further an already illiquid market.
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The SEC enacted rules this year placing limits on the percentage of a fund's cash that can be invested in illiquid securities, requiring managers to categorize investments based on how easily they can be sold.
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In an emailed statement, Crastes was responding to news that Morningstar had put its rating on H20's Allegro fund under review due to concerns about investments in illiquid assets and potential conflicts of interest.
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In one scheme, Platinum, whose investors included many people from New York's Jewish community, was accused of over-valuing its often-illiquid assets to collect higher fees, and falsely reporting annualized returns topping 17 percent.
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The 10-year yield fell to 1.008 percent in highly volatile and illiquid movements, having earlier been indicated as high as 1.59 percent on Friday morning immediately after Tradeweb started offering quotes on traders' screens.
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In the same vein, boards can decide how to respond when a fund holds more than 15 percent in illiquid assets within 30 days, according to materials presented by the commission ahead of its vote.
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Spain's regulator said late on Thursday the ban would apply to 69 stocks, including all liquid shares whose price fell more than 10% on Thursday, and all illiquid shares that fell by more than 20%.
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The sharp move in Natixis share price could be partly because the news followed the gating of Neil Woodford's flagship equity income fund due to redemptions, which also led to scrutiny of its illiquid investments.
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REPATRIATION: Senate Republicans increased tax rates on the repatriation of U.S. corporate profits held overseas to 14.5 percent for liquid assets and 7.5 percent for illiquid holdings, up from 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
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Roger Zullo defrauded his clients, lied to his supervisors and fabricated client financial suitability profiles to enrich himself and his employer by selling identical, illiquid, and high-commission variable annuities, the state said in its complaint.
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Yet for all the hype, mainstream institutional investors are steering clear of the nascent market, taking the view that it is too lightly regulated, too volatile and too illiquid to risk investing other people's money in.
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They are now targeting small cities, where the wealthy have traditionally relied on shadow banking investment products that promise high returns but are illiquid and opaque, according to bankers and consultants working for the wealth managers.
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"Should this debt be downgraded if and when the economy weakened, it is bound to put substantial pressure on a market that is already quite illiquid and, in the process, to generate broader waves," BIS warned.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new rules governing illiquid assets in mutual funds and updated its advice on related fund liquidity-risk management rules adopted in 221.
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"In the case of oil production coming down again, it is not clear that the currency will adjust and you could go back to a position where the market goes completely illiquid again," Emso's Weeks said.
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The retail-targeted fund has been criticized by Britain's markets watchdog for "sailing close to the wind" with its heavy investment in illiquid stocks, including companies which are listed on the Guernsey exchange but not traded.
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While this type of "open-ended" fund can usually be traded easily, a number of funds hold significant proportions of illiquid assets which can be difficult to sell in the event of increased demand for withdrawals.
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"Sterling fell sharply following a news event just after midnight UK time, when the GBP spot foreign exchange market was extremely illiquid," Citi, the biggest player in the $5 trillion a day global currency market, said.
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The retail-targeted fund has been criticised by Britain's markets watchdog for "sailing close to the wind" with its heavy investment in illiquid stocks, including companies which are listed on the Guernsey exchange but not traded.
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That certainly applies to this case, because the S.E.C. has been focusing its attention recently on how hedge funds value illiquid investments, and Visium was an investment adviser that owed a fiduciary duty to its clients.
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Midcap firms were previously less able to finance buyouts cheaply, pursue opportunistic repricings and secure greater financial flexibility by adding incremental debt than big companies as they were seen as more risky and illiquid credit investments.
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BECAUSE I THINK MOST OF WHAT YOU SAW WERE MARKET MAKERS SELLING EUROPEAN BANKS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES BECAUSE THE SECURITY MARKETS OF ITALIAN SOVEREIGN BONDS WAS TOO ILLIQUID AT THE POINT TO REALLY CORRECT YOUR POSITION.
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Texas Republican Representative Kevin Brady called for raising the tax to 14 percent for cash and liquid assets and 7 percent for illiquid assets, up from his earlier proposal of 12 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
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Spain's regulator said late on Thursday that the ban would apply to 69 stocks, encompassing all liquid shares whose price fell more than 10% on Thursday, and all illiquid shares that fell by more than 20%.
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As for the wealth tax, which in Warren's version would begin at $50 million, there are legitimate concerns about how to value assets, avoid marriage penalties and enable zillionaires to pay when their wealth is illiquid.
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The Woodford fund highlighted potential vulnerabilities at some open-ended funds, which typically offer daily redemptions, that have significant investments in assets that are illiquid or hard to sell quickly without incurring losses, the FSB said.
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The SEC rules ban such funds from devoting more than 15% of their total assets to so-called illiquid investments — stocks, bonds, or other instruments that can&apost be easily bought or sold on public markets.
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The impact will likely be felt by smaller developers and in the secondary sales market, making the real estate sector more illiquid for some time, said Anshul Jain, managing director for India at consultant Cushman & Wakefield.
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Worries over their financial health have raised fears that the companies may be unable to turn the provisions - including some illiquid assets - into liquid funds, eventually leaving taxpayers to foot some or much of the bill.
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Mr. Zucman argues that people wealthy enough to owe this tax would generally have ample access to credit, and that the law could even be structured to let people pay their tax obligations with illiquid assets.
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In the three-minute video, Woodford said his current strategy is to reduce the fund's exposure to illiquid and unquoted stocks to zero, a process which was made "much more difficult" by massive outflows from the fund.
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That very ability to buy and sell an illiquid asset with the ease of a share has seen ETFs dedicated to emerging market debt grow four-fold since 2011 to $35 billion, fund research house Morningstar estimates.
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LEARNING LESSONS After property funds were suspended in the aftermath of Britain's vote in 2016 to leave the EU, the FCA consulted last year on tougher rules for funds that invest in property and other illiquid assets.
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"There will at the very least be a reassessment of rules around liquid assets and illiquid assets with respect to funds," said Julian Roberts, analyst at Jefferies, adding that it was possible that the fund could close.
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Lewis Webber, head of insurance data analytics at the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, told the same conference that it was a "good thing" for the economy that someone holds "illiquid, untradable cash flow producing things".
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A staunch minority of economists has for decades called for this sort of arrangement—dubbed "narrow banking"—to replace the existing "fractional reserve" model, under which deposits at banks are backed by mortgages and other illiquid loans.
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Small and medium-sized companies tapped these investors for financing after commodity prices hit a peak in 0003, offering illiquid, high-yielding bonds with no credit rating at a time when commodity prices were starting to sink.
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"Small businesses and farms are illiquid; they lack access to a public market to readily convert ownership into liquid capital, especially fractional ownership," explained asset-valuation expert Dan Doran, founder of of Quantive Valuations in McLean, Virginia.
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Other provisions of the rule, including the requirements to adopt a liquidity risk management program and to limit illiquid investments to 15 percent of a fund's portfolio, will go into effect as originally scheduled, the SEC said.
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In response, H2O suspended entry fees on its funds and sought to shore up investor confidence by ditching some of its holdings in illiquid debt, while Natixis said it would bring forward an audit of the company.
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Shares could only be deemed highly liquid if they can be sold within three business days or less, while shares are "illiquid" if they cannot be sold in less than a week without significantly changing market value.
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The traders went around the valuation committee by taking existing, liquid Treasury trades, and turning them into the more illiquid Strips, increasing the size of the Strips book and thereby increasing the overall reserve, these people said.
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The fund, which specialises in infrastructure investments around the world, as well as other alternative illiquid assets such as private equity and privately owned property and debt, said inflows were also driven by demand for unlisted assets.
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Not only has the statutory tax rate on corporate income fallen from 35 percent to 21 percent, but U.S. companies can now repatriate untaxed income stashed overseas at a 15.5 percent rate (33 percent for illiquid assets).
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MP Securitized Credit Partners has placed "a couple of hundred million" in a short position against a potentially illiquid commercial mortgage index that tracks fading US shopping malls, according to Dan McNamara, a principal at the firm.
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In the last few months, three major investment funds collapsed after their clients discovered they were invested in illiquid assets:The Swiss fund manager GAM "gated" investors inside its Absolute Return Bond funds preventing them from withdrawing money.
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But these fears have not materialised and market participants are now saying that transparency has suffered due to too many "waivers" from the rules being handed out for instruments that are deemed to be "illiquid", ESMA said.
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HONG KONG, March 27 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's markets watchdog warned fund managers on Friday to be careful when selling illiquid investment products to clients during market volatility caused by the new coronavirus in Hong Kong and globally.
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The 10-year yield fell to 1.008 percent GB10YT=TWEB in highly volatile and illiquid movements, having earlier been indicated as high as 1.59 percent on Friday morning immediately after Tradeweb started offering quotes on traders' screens.
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According to a Reuters analysis, at least one-fifth of the roughly $789 million of Third Avenue's Focused Credit Fund was composed of illiquid assets, or securities that don't have a market price because they trade infrequently.
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To encourage U.S. companies to bring home the more than $2.6 trillion now held overseas, the law sets a one-time tax repatriation rate of 15.5 percent for cash and cash-equivalents and 8 percent for illiquid assets.
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The SEC said in the proposal that although firms say that their funds comply with the rule on illiquid investments, delayed loan settlement times can create a mismatch between receiving cash after an asset sale and shareholder redemptions.
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The government has said that financial settlements made with the detainees in exchange for their freedom have raised more than $100 billion, mostly in the form of land, stakes in businesses and other illiquid assets rather than cash.
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The problem is that Europe's market for soured debt remains illiquid, so selling off large quantities of bad loans is only possible at depressed prices, likely forcing banks to raise capital, a costly exercise given their low valuation.
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"Houlihan Lokey has been retained to help Abraaj with issues pertaining to the Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund," Jeff Hammer, managing director and co-head of illiquid financial assets at Houlihan Lokey, said in a statement to Reuters.
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In relatively illiquid conditions in the first minutes of trading in Tokyo, a large order drove the yen more than half a percent higher against the dollar, undoing the bulk of this week's gains for the U.S. currency.
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This meant investors left at the back of the redemption queue, or who did not redeem their investments at all, were sometimes left holding illiquid stocks - a situation the SFC believes may constitute unfair treatment, fund managers said.
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London's big institutional investors, however, are seen as more risk averse than those in major mining centers such as Canada and Australia, particularly when it comes to relatively illiquid shares they cannot get out of quickly, bankers say.
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"These funds offer short-term redemptions to investors while in some cases investing in longer-dated and potentially illiquid assets," the report concluded, warning that a frantic selling spree by investors in the funds could overwhelm securities markets.
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Patch is able to help those with more variable qualifications that struggle to get traditional loans — such as a 1099 contracted worker — monetize their illiquid assets with less harsh or restrictive terms and without increasing their debt burden.
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LAGOS, Feb 20163 (Reuters) - Share dealing on Nigeria's bourse dropped 22016 percent to 21 trillion naira ($2304.20 billion) in 2016, the stock exchange said on Thursday, as foreign investors unnerved by the country's illiquid currency markets sold equities.
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Banks in the European Union held 210,210 billion euros of illiquid assets in their balance sheets at the end of 2300, the Bank of Italy says in a paper to be released on Thursday, according several Italian newspapers.
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While some loan funds say their holdings are liquid and comply with guidelines, which dictate that an open-end fund should invest a maximum of 15% in illiquid assets, the SEC questioned the liquidity of the asset class.
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It said a bank would qualify for an extension as long as it demonstrated meaningful progress in divesting illiquid funds, had a sufficient compliance program and the Fed was not concerned it was trying to evade the law.
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This is due to the illiquid nature of some of the assets transferred to the state as part of the stability contributions (in particular the equity stake in Islandsbanki and a collateralised bond due from the Kaupthing estate).
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"But this team's decision to invest a sleeve of Allegro's portfolio in illiquid, high-risk corporate bonds, all linked to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst, raises concerns about the robustness of the security-selection process applied here," Dobrescu said.
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The new law encourages companies to repatriate those earnings and slaps a mandatory tax on them of 15.5 percent on cash and liquid assets, or 8 percent on illiquid assets, regardless of whether the earnings come home or not.
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The Fidelity Global Institutional Investor Survey showed that 12.13 percent of institutional investors worldwide, from public pension funds to insurance companies and endowments, said they would increase their exposure to these so-called illiquid alternatives in 2017 and 2018.
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While Opes stresses the complexity and case-by-case nature of mortgage originations, any connection between illiquid private shares/RSUs and mortgage terms deepens the relationship between the historically volatile valuations of private startups and the recovering housing market.
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Some regulators fear that if ructions in the corporate-debt market spooked retail investors into sudden flight from these funds, the widespread need to sell off assets in relatively illiquid markets would force down prices, further tightening credit conditions.
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Haefele also said investors would need to move more towards illiquid assets - private debt, private equity and real estate - to boost returns in the current environment where a large part of European and Japanese bonds are yielding negative returns.
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At the heart of Woodford's troubles was the scale of his holdings in unlisted or illiquid assets, which have become a focal point for regulators and lawmakers in subsequent weeks - especially as Woodford continued to charge investors management fees.
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Some investors have pointed to the risk of possible legal action against the bank if any shareholders believe they were not adequately informed about the scale of the illiquid trading book before November's 4.7-billion Swiss franc capital-raising.
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Skeptics say the headline total of reserves exaggerates the resources available to support the renminbi since they suspect it includes illiquid assets such as foreign real estate and private-equity investments that cannot be readily deployed in currency markets.
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The long-term nature of equity crowdfunding means that the emerging asset class, which has been extensively used by fintech (financial technology) firms and smaller scale businesses that have struggled to attract scarce bank finance, has historically been illiquid.
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Woodford invested heavily in illiquid and unlisted stocks, a strategy which has been criticized by some lawmakers and regulators given the fund was marketed to retail investors who would be able to take their money out at any point.
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The SEC's interest picked up, according to one of the people, when a UK fund run by Neil Woodford suffered billions of pounds in outflows after investors learned a large portion of their cash was invested in illiquid securities.
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But although the set is one of a kind — and contains what Mr. Rau estimated to be $1.1 million of stones — he has been trying to sell it since 2014, showing that even unique jewelry can also be illiquid.
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Illiquid assets — because they aren't regularly traded, there is no pricing data — have an advantage over stocks and bonds for institutional investors in these trying times: their losses don't have to be booked every time a statement goes out.
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At the heart of Woodford's troubles was the scale of his holdings in unlisted or illiquid assets, which have become a focal point for regulators and lawmakers in subsequent weeks - especially as Woodford continued to charge investors management fees.
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But demand from investors seeking higher returns has in recent years led to illiquid, unrated bond sales by more volatile, high-yielding oil and gas services' firms, and by 13 they were making 17 percent of local dollar issues.
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FALLEN STAR For Woodford's flagship fund - which has around 3 billion pounds remaining - Link has tasked Blackrock Advisors to sell its listed assets while PJT Partners will continue with its previously agreed role in selling the fund's illiquid assets.
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"Amidst the changes in fixed-income markets over the past several years, we will examine advisers to mutual funds, ETFs and private funds that have exposure to potentially illiquid fixed-income securities," the SEC wrote in its priorities report.
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Morningstar, which provides analysis and ratings on funds, said H2O held "highly illiquid bonds" issued by several companies related to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst, 42, a one-time teen entrepreneur and owner of Tennor Holding, previously known as Sapinda.
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" Ryan Hughes, Head of Active Portfolios at AJ Bell, said that with an element of the fund in illiquid investments, the fund was forced to sell its more liquid holdings to fund redemptions, which in turn can "exacerbate the problem.
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Woodford, one of Britain's most high-profile money managers and a particular favorite of retail investors, told investors he needed to prevent them leaving in order to give him time to sell out of a number of unlisted or illiquid positions.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said investment funds that include illiquid assets but allow investors to take out their money whenever they like were "built on a lie" and could pose a big risk to the financial sector.
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Accounts considered higher-risk include accounts trading in illiquid securities, proprietary or personal accounts of the manager or employee, and pooled investment accounts where a portfolio manager, adviser, or trader may have a higher economic interest than other client accounts.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's biggest traders, Trafigura, booked a $22018 million (£215 million) loss from oil and gas market hedges last year, highlighting the challenges traders face when taking large loans to protect against price swings in illiquid commodities.
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Of the big institutions that have the wherewithal because of their great size to buy buildings themselves fully a third choose not to do it because it's just a pain and it's very illiquid and takes a lot of effort.
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The BoE - where Bailey was deputy governor until he moved to the FCA this month - last year expressed concern about funds that invest in assets which can become illiquid in a crisis, but allow investors to withdraw funds without notice.
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Regulatory experts say that if the S.E.C. does decide to crack down on Third Avenue, it will be related to this pricing issue and whether the portfolio managers at the credit fund set prices too high for the most illiquid bonds.
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Woodford, one of Britain's highest-profile money managers and a particular favourite of retail investors, told investors he needed to prevent them leaving in order to give him time to sell out of a number of unlisted or illiquid positions.
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LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog has decided against a shake-up of the open-ended funds industry, saying changes such as a ban on holding illiquid assets would increase costs and do little to improve protection of consumers.
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"And ultimately how much political sovereignty is sacrificed, and what is the risk to completion of projects in the event of a disorderly slowdown in the domestic Chinese economy," said the U.S. investment firm specializing in frontier and illiquid markets.
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Krisjanis Krustins, associate director at Fitch Ratings, said Fitch's impression from meetings with Qatari authorities was that only 503-15 percent, or at most 20 percent, of QIA money was in illiquid assets such as private equity or real estate.
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It hardly helped that the illiquid bonds in question (worth €1.4bn, or $1.6bn, out of about €30bn in assets under management) were issued by a slew of companies connected to Lars Windhorst, a flamboyant German financier famed for past blow-ups.
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Two-and-a-half months and nearly $1 billion in write-downs later, investors, analysts and former board members are questioning why Thiam and his finance chief, David Mathers, were caught out by the scale of the division's illiquid trades.
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OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Norway's $887 billion sovereign wealth fund and other institutional investors should invest in illiquid, unlisted assets in emerging economies if they want to make money in the future, a leading expert on the fund said on Tuesday.
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That is explained, however, by the illiquid state of Tesla's CDS, which have had only one trader, Edward Koo at JPMorgan, regularly offering quotes on the swap, according to Reuters trading sources who requested anonymity because the quotes are not public.
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HTM refers to the portion of bond requirements lenders are allowed to hold until they mature without needing to mark-to-market them to daily price movements, thus letting banks avoid having to reflect potentially big losses in the illiquid bonds.
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This is due to an illiquid derivatives market in the Middle East, though volumes have been picking up since May this year when the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) launched contracts and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) more recently, brokers and traders said.
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Woodford, one of Britain's highest-profile money managers and a particular favorite of retail investors, told investors he needed to prevent them leaving in order to give him time to sell out of a number of unlisted or illiquid positions.
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According to the SEC, Kuperman later began working with two Canadian stock promoters, and by 2013 had invested nearly all fund assets in Emo Capital Corp, which traded over-the-counter as NuVitality, and other illiquid common and convertible securities.
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While some remain skeptical about the viability of establishing an Asian power and gas exchange, and others question its benefits over long-term bilateral supply deals, there is precedence: 15 years ago, Europe's energy markets were similarly fragmented and illiquid.
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The need to model the risk has arisen because capital markets have provided a bigger slice of corporate funding since the financial crisis and many of the often-illiquid bonds are held in mutual funds offering daily exits to investors.
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After realizing the majority of the U.S. population are homeowners, but were struggling to make monthly payments or save for the future, Sahil wanted to figure out to take an illiquid asset like a home and make it easily accessible.
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The real's slide to 4.24 per dollar took it back towards the record low of 4.2770 per dollar on Tuesday, when the central bank waded into what it said was a dysfunctional and illiquid market for the first time since August.
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Alex Brazier, the BoE's executive director for financial stability, said it was striking that the more illiquid or difficult to trade the assets in a fund were, the more aggressively its investors withdraw their funds as prices of the assets fall.
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Britain's financial regulator is already considering toughening up the rules governing fund holdings in illiquid assets such as property or private equity after seven property funds totaling 18 billion pounds in assets under management froze in July 2016, shortly after the Brexit referendum.
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Thiam said that beyond distressed, he would also seek to chop out other illiquid holdings in the trading book, such as certain collateralised loan obligation (CLO) exposures in Europe and the US, as well as derivative positions, even if the sale incurs losses.
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As people have sought to exit his fund, the relative proportion of unlisted firms within it has risen, making it harder to avoid breaching a European Union rule that no more than 10% of assets are held in unlisted or "illiquid" stocks.
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Much of Trump's money is tied up in highly visible, illiquid investments such as luxury hotels and properties branded with his name, so he will still be aware of these holdings even if he puts someone else in charge of daily operations.
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But a powerful incentive to repatriate these earnings has come from changes which eliminated the "deferral" rule but reduced the rates at which company profits accumulated abroad are taxed — to 15.5 percent for cash holdings and 8 percent for more illiquid investments.
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The corporate regulator is seeking penalties against Macquarie Investment Management Ltd (MIML) for failing to comply with its duties, including not adequately addressing risks associated with some investment decisions and allowing members to redeem or withdraw money when the fund was illiquid.
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Only 30 percent of Deutsche Bank's 24 billion euros of Level 3 assets, which are the most illiquid and hard to value, have been placed within the unit, according to a presentation the bank made alongside its second-quarter results last month.
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The FCA said one possible approach could be to require a manager of a fund holding illiquid assets to ensure a diverse investor base, to prevent one investor or group of investors from acquiring more than a specified proportion of the fund.
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"It was one of the more toxic environments I have ever worked in," said Taylor, the former head of U.S. illiquid credit trading, recalling one manager who "used to walk down the trading aisles and eat people's lunch while they weren't looking".
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Analysts said the new deal gives both firms greater scale in the relatively illiquid market for wide-body jets, but noted these can be harder to place than bread-and-butter single-aisle models that make up the bulk of leasing company portfolios.
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The issue of liquidity was highlighted earlier this year by the failure of a junk bond fund run by U.S. asset manager Third Avenue, whose illiquid assets could not be sold quickly enough to meet redemption requests, leading it to shut down.
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With their average returns dragged down by the weak performance of hedge funds, venture capital and private equity, you would think endowments would be fleeing these so-called alternative investments, which are costly and mostly illiquid, as some large pension funds have done.
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That latter number appears to be what the president was referring to when he tweeted, "Don't let the market become any more illiquid than it already is" and "Stop with the 20193 B's," mentioning a Wall Street Journal opinion piece making that argument.
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To the extent that existing participation by U.S. firms in a given project takes the form of illiquid assets – say, physical investments in pipeline infrastructure – the U.S. firms simply would lose their investments, enriching others generally and perhaps, ironically, Russian firms in particular.
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The issue of liquidity was highlighted earlier this year by the failure of a junk bond fund run by U.S. asset manager Third Avenue, whose illiquid assets could not be sold quick enough to meet redemption requests, leading it to shut down.
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LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Citi said on Wednesday that its trading operations functioned appropriately in a thin and illiquid market during October's "flash crash" in sterling, responding to a Financial Times report saying a trader at the U.S. bank exacerbated the pound's fall.
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It was quoted at around 95% of face value on July 17, the same level as it had been quoted at since March, although that quote was thought to be stale as the name is quite illiquid and has traded little, sources said.
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These countries may have looked unappealing two or three years ago, but the fact that they have a low correlation with global asset price swings and tend to be too illiquid for people to sell out of, is making them increasingly attractive.
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"I probably wouldn't have gone with the trade-at [rule] because it adds a lot of complexity, programming and testing issues, and given we're talking about illiquid stocks, you're investing a lot of money in stocks that don't trade very much," he said.
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Some, like Steven T. Mnuchin, the nominee for Treasury secretary, may actually lose money on some of the assets they have to sell because their holdings are in illiquid assets, like private equity funds, that have to be offloaded at a discount.
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Under the House bill, foreign companies could pay a 7 percent rate on repatriated illiquid assets and a 14 rate on repatriated cash or assets that are easily convertible to cash, while the Senate rates would be 5 and 10 percent, respectively.
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If you have access to such illiquid markets, and you have inside knowledge that lets you identify particular companies as companies that will have an unusually enormous social impact, then you might be in a good position to invest with social benefits.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Wednesday said illiquid funds that allow savers to take money out at will were "built on a lie", in the latest criticism of British investment guru Neil Woodford's management of his suspended flagship fund.
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LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said investment funds that include illiquid assets but allow investors to take out their money whenever they like were "built on a lie" and could pose a big risk to the financial sector.
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FIRE SALE Britain's financial regulator is already considering toughening up the rules governing fund holdings in illiquid assets such as property or private equity after seven property funds totalling 18 billion pounds in assets under management froze in July 2016, shortly after the Brexit referendum.
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The resulting piece looks like a haute couture Speedmaster and should cost around $15,000, an acceptable sum for a manufacture watch with Droz's provenance given that other Droz watches can run into the $17428413,000s, a price that might be less appetizing to the illiquid entrepreneur.
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A Citi spokeswoman said the drop in sterling followed "a news event" at an "extremely illiquid" time of day, a reference to a Financial Times report that night that President François Hollande of France had said he would seek a tough line on Brexit.
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Some of Qatar National Bank's loan paper was spotted in the secondary market this month, a trader said, but he added that the price had not dropped and that Qatari banks' loans remained very illiquid – suggesting most banks were still holding their Qatari exposure.
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Asked in an analyst call who would be held responsible for about $23.6 billion in losses on its illiquid credit portfolio over the past two quarters, Thiam said things had clearly gone wrong but the bank was now confident the problems had been identified.
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To hedge the deal, Trafigura had to rely on a combination of liquid prices such as those of U.S. natural gas or Brent crude and assumptions on the correlation of those liquid benchmarks to illiquid global LNG prices for up to five years forward.
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The 1.53-year-old fund manager will also part ways with some of its listed but illiquid assets as well as his liquid investments on the stock market which will be packaged into relevant portfolios and put on the block separately, the source said.
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"Overtime, family offices have gone more illiquid and more risky in terms of asset classes and this allocation decision has actually paid off because those asset classes have performed well in 2016," Sara Ferrari, head of the Global Family Office Group at UBS, said.
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Rule 22e-4 will require open-ended investment companies, like mutual funds and ETFs, to establish programs that assess and review their individual liquidity risks, classify the liquidity of their investments, determine a highly-liquid investment minimum, limit illiquid investments and enhance board oversight.
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Read more: NASA reportedly paid SpaceX $5 million to make sure its employees didn't use illegal drugs after Elon Musk smoked pot on cameraA filing from Monday by Unsworth's attorney refers to "Musk's sworn testimony that he is financially illiquid," according to Bloomberg's report.
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Martin Shkreli's lawyers, saying his assets are largely "illiquid," are asking a judge to slash his $5 million bail to just $2 million as the former pharmaceutical executive prepares to go on trial on federal criminal securities fraud charges in less than two weeks.
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"Alternative managers are looking to access the growing retail marketplace and firms can put more illiquid assets in an interval fund than a mutual fund because you don't have to meet redemptions each day," according to Kimberly Flynn, a managing director at XA Investments.
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BROWN: BUT THEN WHEN YOU GET REALLY HIGH CONVICTION ON SOMETHING AND TABLE-POUND AND DO POWERPOINTS WITH HUNDREDS OF SLIDES, YOU TURN A LIQUID ASSET, YOU TRANSFORM IT INTO AN ILLIQUID ASSET BECAUSE THERE ARE REASONS WHY YOU CAN NO LONGER GET OUT.
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The agreement, completed only weeks before the wedding, did not quantify Mr. Trump's net worth — "impossible to accurately determine due to the illiquid nature of his holdings" — and took a bearish view of Mr. Trump's earning potential and a modest view of his tastes.
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The nearly 50-page indictment on Monday said that since 2012, Nordlicht, Levy and Landesman schemed to defraud investors by overvaluing illiquid assets held by its flagship Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund LP, mostly energy-related investments hit by the dramatic decline in oil prices.
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"Most of the selling seen over this period has been largely technical (trend-following strategies and option hedging in illiquid market environment), and as such represents a buying opportunity for fundamental investors," U.S. equity strategist Dubravko Lakos-Bujas wrote in a note to clients Tuesday.
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Instead, the savings of people opting for 'cash' investments are being put by some retirement funds into risky products, such as mortgage-backed and commercial bonds, hybrid debt and even credit-default swaps - which are complex and highly illiquid derivatives, APRA said in the letter.
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Yellen's predecessor, Ben Bernanke, once famously called problems in the subprime mortgage market "contained," a statement that would be proven wrong when the collapse of illiquid mortgage-backed securities cascaded through Wall Street and contributed to the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
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Traditionally the preserve of large institutions and well-connected, wealthy individuals, Scottish Mortgage Trust is able to invest in illiquid, unlisted firms partly because as a listed entity it can raise funds without having to worry about investors later suddenly demanding their money back.
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Asked last week who would be held responsible for about $1 billion in losses on its illiquid trading positions over the past two quarters, Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam said things had clearly gone wrong but the bank was now confident the problems had been identified.
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Figuring out exactly how to value that stake is no easy task: Lightspeed owns illiquid shares in a private company, whose soaring paper value is derived from a highly volatile asset that it plans to monetize in small chunks over the course of many years.
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"Our recent fundraising momentum is not surprising given the significant investor demand for alternative credit and our long-standing market leadership and successful track records in both the US and European illiquid credit markets," said Ares Chief Executive Officer Michael Arougheti in the earnings transcript.
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Managers of mutual funds and ETFs with large holdings of illiquid assets, such as some fixed-income securities, would incur additional compliance costs and their funds may underperform their benchmark because of the drag caused by carrying liquid assets, according to the Moody's report.
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The shuttering of the Woodford fund in June that trapped hundreds of thousands of investors, and the suspension by M&G of a property fund in recent weeks, has thrown the spotlight on the ability of funds to meet daily redemptions for illiquid assets.
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The runup in the last month forced bearish traders to close out their bets against the stock and brought buyers in, and with a fairly illiquid stock, "it's not hard to see how movements can be outsized," Barclays wrote in a note to investors.
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"If you've got illiquid assets, you should have them in a closed-ended fund rather than an open-ended fund, because you don't' want to be forced to sell these things if you have a few redemptions," Cliff Weight, director at ShareSoc, which represents individual investors, said.
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"If you've got illiquid assets, you should have them in a closed-ended fund rather than an open-ended fund, because you don't want to be forced to sell these things if you have a few redemptions," Cliff Weight, director at ShareSoc, which represents individual investors, said.
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Schofield said investors who lost money in Credit Suisse's American depositary receipts could pursue claims that the bank, Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam and other defendants intended to mislead them, by touting its "comprehensive" risk controls and "binding" limits on its exposure to risky and illiquid debt.
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The state, which has long been underweighted in distressed investments, also said it would allocate up to $125 million to the Anchorage Illiquid Opportunities V fund, a private debt fund run by Anchorage Capital, one of the hedge fund firms already being used by the state.
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Stripped to essentials, Third Avenue, a mutual fund rather than a hedge fund, tried to goose its returns by loading up on the junkiest junk: Even before it began to implode, it had nearly 20 percent of its holdings in the lowest-rated, most illiquid debt securities.
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Fink told Wall Street analysts earlier this month that he expects so-called illiquid alternative investments, which include private equity and typically come with higher fees than its other funds, to "be one of the more significant" drivers for BlackRock's business over the next few years.
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The risk of a daily liquidity fund holding illiquid assets was highlighted when several U.K. asset managers felt compelled to put a halt on redemptions of their commercial property funds in the wake of the EU referendum as investors tried to flee the asset class en masse.
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It said regulators should look at the huge growth in dollar-denominated emerging market debt, which has nearly trebled to US$20trn over the last eight years; the role of asset managers in illiquid credit markets; as well as the particular structure of Chinese nonbank lending.
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When it comes to "longer dated and potentially illiquid assets," as the Bank of England describes these investments, few fit the bill more precisely than the commercial properties to which British fund companies like Aberdeen, Henderson and Columbia Threadneedle offer maximum exposure through their mutual funds.
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SC Lowy, which has offices in Hong Kong, London and Seoul, entered the Italian market in April this year by buying a 90 percent stake in small lender Credito di Romagna, with a view to developing an investment banking business and buying illiquid assets including soured loans.
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"This full and fair offer provides Faroe shareholders a rare opportunity to exit their relatively illiquid AIM-listed positions at an attractive price in a volatile and uncertain market for oil and equities," Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, Executive Chairman of DNO, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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A more salient benefit for Apple, Microsoft and other big tech companies - which have hoarded hundreds of billions of dollars of profits outside the United States - is the bill's one-time tax of 8 percent on illiquid assets and 15.5 percent tax on cash and cash equivalents held overseas.
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"Banks' holdings of illiquid municipal bonds purchased at relatively high prices could be detrimental for the health of the banking system over the longer term, especially if reforms to the banking sector are slower than expected and if there is a sharp deterioration in the economy," he said.
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"As MET Group has a considerable sized sales portfolio focusing on industrial clients and power plants mainly in the illiquid parts of Europe, it is continuously optimizing its portfolio (using the) trading capabilities it has been building in the last five years on a European scale," she said.
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Shareholders have been approached over the last few months by people interested in investing in the company at a valuation as low as $2 billion and as a high as $8 billion — a range that shows how volatile, opaque and illiquid the market is for hungry Coinbase investors.
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BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink told Wall Street analysts last week that he expects so-called illiquid alternative investments, which include private credit and typically come with higher fees than its other funds, to "be one of the more significant" drivers for BlackRock's business over the next few years.
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Two-and-a-half months and nearly $22014 billion in write-downs later, investors, analysts and former board members are questioning why Thiam and his finance chief, David Mathers, were caught out by the scale of the division's illiquid trades — positions that are not easy to sell out of.
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"This is partly an unwind of some of the move we saw last week, which took place in the wake of the slightly more cautious minutes from the Fed and in an especially illiquid holiday market," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.
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Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink has told analysts this year that he expects so-called illiquid alternative investments, which include private equity and typically come with higher fees than its other funds, to "be one of the more significant" drivers for BlackRock's business over the next few years.
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Mutual funds are permitted to dedicate up to 20193 percent of assets to illiquid securities, including private companies, but they often invest much less because those holdings cannot be easily sold — that's a problem for funds because they must have enough flexibility to pay shareholders who cash out.
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"This wasn't clear to me — it wasn't clear to my CFO and to many people inside the bank," Thiam said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. He said that his traders had racked up distressed debt and other illiquid positions and that he was not aware of it until January.
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"Funds holding a large proportion of assets that may be, in certain circumstances, illiquid or hard to value, such as commercial property, may consider that the suspension should be lifted and investors given the opportunity to redeem at a revised valuation of the units in the fund," the FCA said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil traders raced to abandon complex, bearish options trades in U.S. crude this week, after the market rapidly shifted to reflect tighter supplies at the key Oklahoma storage hub over the past month, leading to a surge of activity in a typically illiquid corner of the market.
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In general, tracking difference will be very tight in big, liquid markets (it varies by just a basis point or two for the big S&P 500 funds), and will vary quite a lot in small, illiquid markets (frontier market ETFs can swing from a percent or two up or down).
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A pioneering paper by Yakov Amihud and Haim Mendelson, published in 1986, posits that investors with the shortest horizons hold securities with the lowest trading costs; and bonds that are relatively illiquid are held by long-term investors, who can spread the higher trading costs over a longer holding period.
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A new Long-Term Asset Fund - which was in the works even before the Woodford fund was suspended - would give savers access to investment in private companies and other illiquid assets but would likely require investors to give longer notice if they want to leave the fund, the association said.
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"Maybe Tria's comments are a bit more blunt and reassuring than markets were expecting and that explains the move in Italian bonds, but we are still in an illiquid market for BTPs (index-linked Italian government bonds) and that's illustrated in the market reaction," said ING senior rates strategist Martin van Vliet.
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COLOMBO, April 22016 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan share index ended firmer on Tuesday, edging up from its nine-week closing low hit last week, as investors picked up illiquid shares of Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka Plc, but political woes over a no-confidence motion against the prime minister weighed on sentiment, brokers said.
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As part of this shift, Sweden said earlier this year it will allow some of its largest state public pension funds, named APs 1, 2, 3 and 4, to allocate up to 40 percent of the about $140 billion they manage to illiquid investments, removing a 5 percent limit for unlisted instruments.
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Such changes would end up raising costs and having a negative effect, it added in a discussion paper in which it said it was open to ideas on how the "tools" available to fund managers might help them better manage the liquidity of funds that offer regular dealing but hold illiquid assets.
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BlackRock, known best for funds that track the stock and bond markets, has been putting more emphasis on so-called illiquid alternative investments, complex investments including private equity and real estate that typically come with higher fees and are more likely to be sold to an institution than a mom-and-pop investor.
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As a result, hedge funds are under increasing pressure to lower their typical fee structure, which charges 723 percent of assets invested plus 20 percent of gains, or face investors pulling assets in favor of other illiquid investments ranging from private equity to real estate, or even low-cost market index funds.
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And executives "making" some massive amount isn't the same as seeing a direct deposit in their checking account — for example, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said he was "financially illiquid," despite a multibillion-dollar fortune and a potentially massive compensation agreement with the electric-car company that has yet to pay out.
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"Given the secular growth drivers in the industry (migration to illiquid alts, share gains by large/one-stop-shop platforms) and qualities of the public alternative business model (locked-up capital, fees on fixed invested capital/not NAV), we continue to find the industry attractive relative to the broader market and financial sector."
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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Funds with illiquid assets like property should penalise investors for short-notice redemptions to reflect the likely price hit from a quick asset sale, the Bank of England concluded in a review prompted by the closure of a flagship fund run by former star stock picker Neil Woodford.
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The fund does not invest directly in publicly quoted securities, but has specialized in macro strategies as well as complicated illiquid trades alongside hedge funds including Elliott Management and Paulson & Co. In 2014 it made 14 per cent for McKinsey partners, compared with a 3 per cent average for hedge funds in the same year.
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The 2018 risk alert offered examples of common billing deficiencies: - Advisers valued assets in a client's account using a different metric than that which was specified in the client's advisory agreement, such as using the asset's original cost to value an illiquid asset rather than valuing the asset based on its fair market value.
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"My sense is that younger investors are more likely to raise cash to compensate for tying up funds in long-term, illiquid investments and to do their own version of market-timing, waiting for stocks to correct and then buying opportunistically," said Mitch Goldberg, investment advisor and president of Melville, New York-based ClientFirst Strategy.
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"The offer is very generous to the Tier 1 holders: 85 on something that doesn't pay coupons, is very illiquid and was trading in the 50s two weeks ago is as good as it possibly gets, and I think it will have a high acceptance rate", a senior credit analyst at a fund manager said.
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"You put that together and you're left with a highly illiquid investment that you don't know [the] worth [of] and can't be [easily] sold, even if it's legitimate," said Christopher Gerold, bureau chief of the New Jersey Bureau of Securities and president of the North American Securities Administrators Association, which represents state investment regulators.
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While financial metrics are consistent with an 'A' category, Global Switch's ratings are constrained by data centre properties being a less mature asset class compared with other real estate assets, a rather illiquid trading market for the properties, and the potential for rapid technological development rendering the assets obsolete, although this is a relatively low, long-term risk.
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"In light of these redemption requests and the increasing illiquid nature of the Funds ... as well as issues relating to accounting and revenue recognition policies that have been raised in connection with an ongoing SEC investigation ... the Investment Manager has determined that the continued operation of the Funds is no longer commercially viable," the letter said.
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The Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates markets, and the PRA declined to comment, but people privy to their work say they have since jointly written to a clutch of the market's biggest dealing banks, telling them to ensure they are vigilant on the risk of market dislocations at illiquid times of day and that electronic trading tools are equipped with proper safety features.
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And any of these folks that can't have differentiated returns, you are not going to take on the risk of being illiquid, especially if you think about in a world that is probably going to become more complex, more dynamic, less stable, you want to have massive amounts of liquidity because you don't know when the dislocation is going to happen.
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Firms "have to solve the puzzle of how you give investors the right amount of liquidity so the investor isn't locked up in a [private-equity]-style 10-year plus investment, while still delivering on the investor promise and thesis of underlying assets that are illiquid," said Nathan Greene, head of law firm Shearman & Sterling's registered funds and investment adviser regulatory group.
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"The bank is internally deadlocked and likely to backtrack on its promised commitment to adopt a flexible regime and will simply tweak the current illiquid managed fixed peg regime in an attempt to narrow the divergence between the official currency rate and the black market currency rate which is over 40 percent and growing," said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, chief Africa frontier markets analyst at DaMina Advisors.
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This also means that pending mergers are far more likely to be approved, charter schools will not face federal opposition, the sharing economy will not risk being shut down by new federal worker classification regulations, the SEC will not aggressively involve itself in private, illiquid companies and assets, and peer-to-peer lending will not face significant federal opposition, among many, many other issues.
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The company's Global Alternatives Survey, which covers 10 asset classes and seven investor types, shows that of the top 100 alternative investment managers, real estate managers have the largest share of assets (34% and over $1.2 trillion), followed by hedge funds (21% and $755 billion), private equity fund managers (18% and $2.33 billion), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (12% and $420 billion), funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) (6% and $222 billion), infrastructure (5%) and illiquid credit (5%).
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These include: (i) receivables from debt collection companies (RUB6.8 billion, 0.3x) to which the bank sold its bad loans (ii) a poorly collateralised reverse repo exposure to a weak Russian bank (RUB7 billion, 7503x; reduced to RUB5 billion at end-2016) and (iii) other loans (RUB21 billion, 0.9x) among the 25 largest loans, which are restructured and/or issued to construction companies to finance recently started projects with long tenor or covered by fairly illiquid collateral.
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These potentially risky exposures include: - RUB57 billion (52% of FCC at end-1Q17) of high risk corporate loans to borrowers with high leverage/weak financial performance - RUB17 billion (16%) related-party construction exposure - RUB05003 billion (29%) of weak reverse repo exposures with high counterparty risks and/or weak, illiquid collateral with limited discounts - RUB22 billion (20%) of blank interbank and bond exposures to weak Russian financial institutions, which could be fiduciary in nature; according to CBM, this exposure reduced to RUB5 billion (5%) in June 2017 Of somewhat lower credit risk, are exposures (through loans, reverse repos and interbank placements) to two large Russian banks and two property developers of a combined RUB65 billion (61% of FCC at end-1Q2123).
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The SEC, in its complaint, alleged: Musk knew that he (1) had not agreed upon any terms for a going-private transaction with the Fund or any other funding source; (2) had no further substantive communications with representatives of the Fund beyond their 2420 to 220 minute meeting on July 220; (2419) had never discussed a going-private transaction at a share price of $2420 with any potential funding source; (224) had not contacted any additional potential strategic investors to assess their interest in participating in a going-private transaction; (20163) had not contacted existing Tesla shareholders to assess their interest in remaining invested in Tesla as a private company; (22016) had not formally retained any legal or financial advisors to assist with a going-private transaction; (22.6) had not determined whether retail investors could remain invested in Tesla as a private company; (23) had not determined whether there were restrictions on illiquid holdings by Tesla's institutional investors; and (9) had not determined what regulatory approvals would be required or whether they could be satisfied.
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