Sentence examples for illiquid equities from inspiring English sources

The big dogs don't like illiquid equities.

So the Alico sale would, at least for part of its value, achieve the replacement of one illiquid equity stake only with another — in a company the government doesn't need to own.

A clear example is that buyers can still unlock newly found (but illiquid) equity of properties in their portfolios to be pledged as 20% collateral against a new mortgage for another purchase.

These include insufficient SME risk capital being available to SME sector, mainly to high growth potential SMEs and illiquid equity market for small firm sectors (Falkena et al., 2001).

He looked at three portfolios: a classic 60/40 US equity/Treasury bonds split; a Yale-like portfolio with seven separate asset classes; and a portfolio with international diversification but without the illiquid private-equity, hedge-fund and real-estate portions.

There is a risk that in the event of a run on them (and private-equity folk all agree that there is now a hedge-fund bubble), hedge funds might have to sell fairly illiquid private-equity investments fast.

Even these losses are likely underestimated because they still do not include mark-to-market losses in many illiquid private equity and hedge funds.

Another adept adaptation was to transfer troublesome assets to so-called Level 3 assets, where Goldman just could not realistically price its illiquid private equity and bridge loans made years earlier.

A combination of factors are driving high-net-worth individuals into the arms of relatively illiquid private-equity and hedge fund investments (called alternative investment strategies), according to Artivest's chief executive, James Waldinger.

The report was prepared by Preqin, a London-based research group that conducted the survey with 100 endowments, mostly from the U.S. Illiquid private equity holdings that still require large future investment commitments have become a headache for many endowments amid the credit crisis.

Highly illiquid securities and equity trades were separately placed into a new vehicle called New Street run by four bankers from Drexel.