Liquidity requirements create a balancing act for your clients’ defined benefit (DB) plans. Hold too little and you can’t pay participants’ benefits, which is a disaster on multiple fronts.

Simple steps to develop a liquidity plan. Suggestions for mitigating liquidity surprises. Benefits of paced spending. Cash needn't be your only source of liquidity. Erika Murphy, CFA is a portfolio ...

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 ...

Liquidity refers to how much cash is readily available, or how quickly something can be converted to cash. Market liquidity applies to how easy it is to sell an investment — how big and constant a ...

Liquidity ratios assess if a company can cover short-term debts with available assets. Key ratios include cash, quick, current, and operating cash flow ratios. A liquidity ratio over 1 suggests a ...