Because low-income housing is a long-term, relatively illiquid investment, investors typically put only 7 to 8 percent of their portfolios in it.

The free float on Eros is about 30pc, so the shares are relatively illiquid, but the volumes average about 100,000 a day.

Managers of active funds have more discretion, he said, and some foreign stocks are relatively illiquid.

Many such relatively illiquid securities are valued as marked to model, rather than an actual market price.

Size is another consideration, as is the relatively illiquid resale market.

That makes their stocks risky and relatively illiquid, and analyst coverage sparse.

In addition, because the market for an index's smallest stock will be relatively illiquid, an equally weighted index fund can never become very large.

Stamps may be relatively illiquid as finding a buyer may take time.

Those assets will consist primarily of Drexel's securities positions, which are relatively illiquid.

They say secondary trading is relatively illiquid, meaning once securities are purchased it is difficult to sell them quickly without a significant drop in price.