Market Liquidity

Market Liquidity
Author: Yakov Amihud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521191769

This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.

Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets

Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets
Author: Francis A. Longstaff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

Many important classes of assets are illiquid in the sense that they cannot always be traded immediately. Thus, a portfolio position in these types of illiquid investments becomes at least temporarily irreversible. We study the asset-pricing implications of illiquidity in a two-asset exchange economy with heterogeneous agents. In this market, one asset is always liquid. The other asset can be traded initially, but then not again until after a quot;blackoutquot; period. Illiquidity has a dramatic effect on optimal portfolio decisions. Agents abandon diversification as a strategy and choose highly polarized portfolios instead. The value of liquidity can represent a large portion of the equilibrium price of an asset. We present examples in which a liquid asset can be worth up to 25 percent more than an illiquid asset even though both have identical cash flow dynamics. We also show that the expected return and volatility of an asset can change significantly as the asset becomes relatively more liquid.

Investment Decisions on Illiquid Assets

Investment Decisions on Illiquid Assets
Author: Jaroslaw Morawski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2009-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834999555

Jaroslaw Morawski offers a practicable and theoretically well-founded solution to the problems encountered when investing in illiquid assets and develops a model of the liquidation process for this category of investments. The result is a coherent investment decision framework designed specifically for private real estate but applicable also to other illiquid assets.

Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds

Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds
Author: Dunhong Jin
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2019-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513519492

How to prevent runs on open-end mutual funds? In recent years, markets have observed an innovation that changed the way open-end funds are priced. Alternative pricing rules (known as swing pricing) adjust funds’ net asset values to pass on funds’ trading costs to transacting shareholders. Using unique data on investor transactions in U.K. corporate bond funds, we show that swing pricing eliminates the first-mover advantage arising from the traditional pricing rule and significantly reduces redemptions during stress periods. The positive impact of alternative pricing rules on fund flows reverses in calm periods when costs associated with higher tracking error dominate the pricing effect.

Mastering Illiquidity

Mastering Illiquidity
Author: Thomas Meyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119952816

Arms investors with powerful new tools for measuring and managing the risks associated with the various illiquid asset classes With risk-free interest rates and risk premiums at record lows, many investors are turning to illiquid assets, such as real estate, private equity, infrastructure and timber, in search of superior returns and greater portfolio diversity. But as many analysts, investors and wealth managers are discovering, such investments bring with them a unique set of risks that cannot be measured by standard asset allocation models. Written by a dream team of globally renowned experts in the field, this book provides a clear, accessible overview of illiquid fund investments, focusing on what the main risks of these asset classes are and how to measure those risks in today's regulatory environment. Provides solutions for institutional investors in need of guidance in today's regulatory environment Offers detailed descriptions of risk measurement in illiquid asset classes, illustrated with real life case studies Helps you to develop reliable risk management tools while complying with the regulations designed to contain the individual and systemic risks arising from illiquid investments Features real-life case studies that capture an array of risk management scenarios you are likely to encounter

Managing Illiquid Assets

Managing Illiquid Assets
Author: Savita Verma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Assets (Accounting)
ISBN: 9781906348410

The perspectives of experts and practitioners are brought together on managing these high-risk, and frequently complex, financial assets.

Where Experience Matters

Where Experience Matters
Author: Adrian Buss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2015
Genre: Asset allocation
ISBN:

Alternative assets, such as private equity, hedge funds, and real assets, are illiquid and opaque, and thus pose a challenge to traditional models of asset allocation. In this paper, we study asset allocation and asset pricing in a general-equilibrium model with liquid assets and an alternative risky asset, which is opaque and incurs transaction costs, and investors who differ in their experience in assessing the alternative asset. We find that the optimal asset-allocation strategy of the relatively inexperienced investors is to initially tilt their portfolio away from the alternative asset and to hold more of it with experience. Counterintuitively, a decrease in the transaction cost for the alternative asset increases the portfolio tilt at the initial date, and hence, the liquidity discount. Transaction costs may induce inexperienced investors to hold a majority of the illiquid asset at later dates, even if they are pessimistic about future payoffs, and produce a sizable liquidity discount. During periods when the alternative asset is illiquid, investors trade the liquid equity index instead, leading to strong spillover effects.

Liquidity and Asset Prices

Liquidity and Asset Prices
Author: Yakov Amihud
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933019123

Liquidity and Asset Prices reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empirical connection between the two. Liquidity and Asset Prices surveys the theory of liquidity-based asset pricing followed by the empirical evidence. The theory section proceeds from basic models with exogenous holding periods to those that incorporate additional elements of risk and endogenous holding periods. The empirical section reviews the evidence on the liquidity premium for stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.