Some market experts worry that investing in illiquid assets, despite their inherent risks, has become almost mainstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Investors also can choose how much in so-called illiquid assets they want to hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hedge Fund Snapshots: Surviving the Financial Crisis] Reference

Not only did financial institutions increase their risk exposure by loading up on long-term illiquid assets, (MBS.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

The remainder, mostly held in so-called illiquid investments, may take as long as three years to distribute, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

(Mr. McHardy usually calls them "illiquid" assets.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankers Beat Odds in Toxic Pay Plan] Reference

How to decide what CDOs are merely 'illiquid' and which are truly without value?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Intellectually, too, Mr. Taylor says that universities are "illiquid," perhaps even broke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Writing, Radical Change] Reference

What makes you think the bulk of the money is "illiquid"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Mighty Bargain Hunter] Reference

Redefining as "illiquid" any security that cannot be sold or disposed of within seven days at carrying value.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Some of the "illiquid" assets represent tranches of mortgage-backed securities that will be completely wiped out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The 700 billion dollar bail-out bill being voted on spends your hard earned money on "toxic assets" that are "illiquid".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference

That's the price one pays for swindling the world with worthless mortgage-backed snake oil and other "illiquid" garbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dandelion Salad] Reference

Because it was assumed that the MBS market was "illiquid," the government would become the buyer of last resort for these products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Many investors were angered to discover their funds were "illiquid" when they rushed to withdraw funds amid the financial downturn.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Buying "illiquid" mortgage-related assets - the reason the programme was established a month ago - is no longer being considered, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAYonline] Reference

"illiquid," it doesn't necessarily give a good idea value of the shares once the company goes public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

But if they're illiquid, buy their assets at a fair price.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008] Reference

So it's important to remember Asia is a fairly illiquid market.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009] Reference

Investors remain cautious and financial markets relatively illiquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multinational Corporations Strive To Compete] Reference

A house is an illiquid investment, time-consuming and expensive to sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a big purchase, so why not invest some time in basic financial analysis] Reference

PAULSON: When we went to Congress, illiquid assets looked like the way to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2008] Reference

Tube was a fairly illiquid stock and that light trade was accentuating its rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia, Europe Stocks] Reference

HENRY PAULSON: When we went to Congress, illiquid assets looked like the way to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2008] Reference

But pink-sheet issues are often illiquid -- forcing sellers to take a haircut on the price.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Primer On Buying Abroad] Reference

Not only can they be as risky as any other investment they also tend to be highly illiquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Outside the Stocks] Reference

This in turn pressured the funds, which were forced to sell holdings into an already illiquid market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moody's Gets Mixed Grades on Money-Fund Plan] Reference

Much of the paper held by those fixed-income portfolios is illiquid — that is, hard to find buyers for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Markets Are So Shaky] Reference

By using the Federal Reserve Banks to swap out illiquid mortgage-backed securities with sound Treasuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrett Johnson: Fairy Tales and History Rhymes] Reference

Although relatively small and illiquid, markets for such uncertain risks as hurricane futures have been developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longevity Investing Hasn't Come Of Age] Reference

However, it will in some cases sharply reduce the amount that a bank can borrow against illiquid or low-rated bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [ECB Gets Tougher on Its Bank Lending] Reference

These deals are illiquid and their value uncertain, says Norman Stein, professor of law at the University of Alabama.    From Wordnik.com.  [When A 401(K) Is Not Ok] Reference

The government usually reopens the same 40-year issue several times to improve liquidity of the relatively illiquid maturity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's 40-Year Bonds Sell Well Despite Low Yield] Reference

The market for the metal itself is very illiquid, although the development of exchange-traded funds has opened up a good proxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Dollar Slides, Safe-Haven Options Shrink] Reference

In an April 2008 email, a senior Treasury official said that Lehman had packaged up illiquid assets into securities to "game" the PDCF.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons of Lehman's Flighty Funding] Reference

But some make high-risk bets on certain sectors, such as bankrupt companies, illiquid stocks or currency changes, with no hedging at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAPITAL IDEAS] Reference