For stock and bond market investors, liquidity risk is the risk an investment can't be bought or sold quickly enough to prevent or minimize a loss. The size of bid-offer spreads and the amount of ...

(MoneyWatch) It's relatively well known that less-liquid investments tend to outperform more liquid investments. And there's a perfectly logical economic explanation: Since investors prefer greater ...

Investing is about putting money at risk in order to earn a return. In theory, the more risk an investor is willing to accept, the more returns he or she should expect to earn to compensate for the ...

Most people don’t think about it, but there is a liquidity premium on publicly traded securities just as there is a risk premium, yet most only think about it in the case of extremely illiquid assets ...

Alternative investments such as private real estate create a liquidity challenge for plan sponsors, but advisers can help find solutions, or steer toward other non-traditional options altogether. One ...

Ibbotson professes to be surprised that a clear-cut liquidity anomaly exists. After all, hedge funds hire mathematicians to plumb data to uncover arbitrage opportunities, which in theory should ...

The prices of special securities known as TIPS can give some insight into how investors view the outlook for future inflation. New research uses a novel term structure model of nominal and real yields ...

Researchers at Standard & Poor’s have a new model for enhancing returns using levels of liquidity in individual stocks, and it’s not the one Wall Street uses. It’s been a tenet of investing for years ...

In fact, the movie opens with a Jewish scientist catching the literal ‘last train out’ of Berlin, which creates the emotional backdrop for Szilard’s need for sudden mobility. In a growingly oppressive ...

In the outstanding 1980s miniseries about the development of the first atomic bomb, Day One, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard is quoted as saying that he always keeps his suitcases packed and at ...