Retirement advice articles often focus on accumulating a specific nominal amount of wealth, then controlling expenses so that you never outlive your proceeds. These are valuable points of ...

Often, investors and companies will refer to their current liquidity. They’re typically talking about their available cash on-hand and the ability to quickly access funds. In accounting, investment ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

If you’ve been wondering what are liquid assets and why they matter, here’s the quick answer: liquid assets are anything you own that can be turned into cash quickly without losing value. These are ...

Benchmark bonds set performance standards for other bonds. This article covers their definition, operation, and examples that ...

Finding accurate market information on securities that seldom trade or only trade in small batches is a tricky proposition and makes it challenging to find answers to the following types of questions: ...

The number and size of open-end funds investing in illiquid assets have grown dramatically in recent years. For example, in 2016, the open-end Blackstone Real Estate BREIX was founded. By Sept. 30, ...

Fear or Fear Not? My colleague John Rekenthaler recently wrote about the hazards of illiquid mutual fund investments. Long story short, mutual funds and illiquid investments are a potentially lethal ...

When trading ETFs, there are many criteria to consider, such as the use of limit orders, market volatility, when to trade if the underlying markets are closed, and the liquidity of the ETF. Advisors ...