The answer is often a 20% gate, since it can take 800+ days to get all of your money back, as you'll see in the example below. Read on. There is also an additional hidden surprise that gets uncovered in the LiquidityCalendar.com reports. Combine that gate with a common holdback, and liquidity gets worse depending on the month in which you redeem. Explaining this to a client or the board is not easy, especially when they're already upset about how long it takes to get all of their money back.
The example of the 800+ day surprise
It's not something you can easily map in Excel, so I created a visual on a sample calendar seen below. It models the 20% gate, quarterly redemptions and a 10% holdback payable after the audit is due. A larger image is visible by clicking on the calendar.
Investor are surprised when they find that the same liquidity provision takes 806 days to get all of their money back, but 305 “fewer” days if the redemption request is made during a different time of year?
If you submitted notice on January 15, 2016 to trigger the start of a full redemption request in that quarter, you would get your final payment a whopping 806 days later on March 31, 2018. Are you surprised? See the blue ovals on the calendar to track this.
However, if you submitted notice on November 15, 2016, to trigger the start of a full redemption request in that quarter, you would still get your final payment on the same date, that of March 31, 2018, but it is 305 fewer days from your request. Yes, almost a year shorter! Take a look at the calendar to see the green colored payment schedules, and when the final payment would be made.
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