Goldman Basket Weavers Advise Buying Less-Liquid Stocks

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“Liquidity” is darn near a sacred word on Wall Street, almost as important as “Hippocratic” is to doctors or “high school football” to Texans.

The ability to sell an asset quickly at a fair price is often considered an important attribute of an investment. You only have to go back a few years to the last financial crisis and ask owners of obscure debt derivatives how everything turned out for them.