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- noun economics The condition of being
illiquid ; a lack ofliquidity
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Examples
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Increasing illiquidity is how the value of your miles goes down with respect to the goods they can be exchanged for.
Pseudo-currency, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(they'd risk their already-tenuous non-profit status), OK ones (managing more money makes their job harder -- but if they're earning 2-and-20 for that money they're being compensated, and Harvard's returns haven't fallen visibly as its endowment has increased), and slightly dubious ones (the endowments 'need for illiquidity, which is real, but it's hardly as though they never pay out any cash: they do, every year, to their respective universities).
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"The markets are ... suffering from some illiquidity which is exaggerating moves on small volumes," credit strategists at
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This measure is designed to prevent that kind of illiquidity -- but it is perfectly possible to go too far in the opposite direction.
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The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk or individual manager risk.
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But as the Lehman failure illustrates, where should we draw the line between "illiquidity" and insolvency on the one hand, and higher risk and outright fraud?
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The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk or individual manager risk.
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The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk or individual manager risk.
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The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk or individual manager risk.
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The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk or individual manager risk.
garyth123 commented on the word illiquidity
illiquid - Said of investments such as a stock, bond or commodity that cannot be readily converted into cash. (from one of the definitions returned by the Google link). So the state of being illiquid or something like that.
All vowels are i. That I've noticed this shows the effect that Wordie is having on me as previously I would not have picked up on this sort of thing.
December 24, 2008