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Liquidity Shock: The Hidden Risk in ModernMarkets
2018/04/05

  Summary
The risk of volatility spikes and liquidity shortages is rising, and it could get worse with new “quantitativetightening” policies from central banks. Politicians and regulators may eventually step in, but investors
should take steps now to help guard against the possible loss of liquidity.
Key takeaways
Recent bouts of market turbulence have been brief but dramatic – a reminder to investors thatliquidity shortages could make portfolios more vulnerable
New financial products, automated technologies and changing regulations are adding to volatility
spikes and liquidity woes – and higher rates could make matters worse
To buffer against liquidity shocks, consider making portfolios more diversified, using liquid
derivatives and building in enough time to recover from potential losses

Today’s markets contain hidden risks that increase vulnerability to volatility spikes and liquidity shortages.
The main sources of these risks are financial product innovations, automated and algorithmic trading practices, and regulatory adjustments put in place after the2008 financial crisis as a means of strengthening markets. Also contributing to more “accident-prone” markets are diminished bank-bond inventories, the growthof high-frequency trading, and the proliferation of ETFs and rules-based trading strategies. In coming years, the gradual removal of monetary accommodation by
central banks – which shrinks funding liquidity – threatens to exacerbate these risks.

Liquidity Shortages Exacerbated February’s VIX Spikes
VIX bid-ask spreads on 5 Feb 2018VIX bid-ask spreads on 5 Feb 2018

*The front month VIX future index
Source: Barclays Research, Bloomberg

The brief but dramatic episode of financial market turbulence at the start of 2018 serves as a reminder to investors to account for potential liquidity shortages intheir risk-management practices. Protecting a portfolio against liquidity shocks requires a system to identify predictive signs of disruption, as well as having
palliative action plans in place designed to meet these jolts. Meanwhile, Congress and regulators would be wise to support micro- and macro-prudential measuresthat can minimize risks related to the availability of liquidity, helping build investor confidence and, potentially, soften the impact of liquidity shocks.

Learning from the past: Lessons from the 2008 crisis
To be sure, financial markets became more liquid as the financial system regained strength following the 2008 crisis. Monetary authorities were forced to step in toassure that illiquidity in specific funding markets did not lead to sequential disruptions that would make the entire financial system inoperable. These actions
proved highly effective.
Since the crisis, markets have also been made more mechanically efficient as a result of technological advances and product innovations. Worldwide, trades today
are executed nearly instantaneously and at transaction costs that are only a fraction of what they were a few years ago. In particular, fixed-income markets havebeen transformed as barriers to entry have fallen and new liquidity providers have stepped forward. In turn, new electronic infrastructure also allows a morediverse set of investors to participate, increasing competition and improving market liquidity. Bid-ask spreads are now meaningfully tighter, complex
documentation has been eliminated and risk has been reduced.
However, redesign of the financial landscape may have elevated liquidity risk, too. For example, reversal of the actions by central banks to assure market liquidity
will entail many unknowns that could cause liquidity shortages and devolve into security prices cascading downward. As tighter monetary policy causes interest
rates to rise, public and private sector debt servicing costs will climb and some marginal borrowers might be crowded out.
Furthermore, safeguards put in place by regulators to make the banking and financial systems more resilient, such as capital and leverage requirements, may
make banks less willing to accept non-operating, short-term deposits, reluctant to underwrite stock issuance through rights offerings, and unwilling to buy bonds if
a financial shock arises.
Ironically, algorithmic and automated trading platforms present challenges to market liquidity. Given the hyper-speed of automated transactions, apparently
simple and innocent actions, can quickly initiate – without human intervention – a chain of compounding problems. These challenges can become even more
daunting when transactions respond to rule-based approaches tied to low-volatility, momentum and dynamic-hedging strategies, particularly when investor
confidence and market performance turn negative.

Liquidity from High-Frequency Traders Could Prove Ephemeral in Crisis
High-frequency trading as a percentage of overall US equity trading

High-frequency trading as a percentage of overall US equity trading

Source: TABB Group, Allianz Global Investors as at 31 December 2016.

Even ETFs, whose enormous popularity among retail investors reflects little concern about potential illiquidity, could face a disorderly loss of value under crisis
conditions. In the end, ETFs are only as liquid as their least-liquid holding. If bid-ask spreads widen as financial conditions deteriorate, fewer traders will enter theETF market, leading to decreased liquidity and wider price swings. Redemption of fund units then leads to across-the-board selling of the underlying securities andcontagion across asset classes which might send shock waves of distress to other markets.
In the event that a financial correction becomes intense, investors must be on the watch for rapidly falling security prices that could force asset holders to shrink
their portfolios and hoard liquidity.

3 ways to guard against the loss of liquidity
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Maintain a broadly diversified portfolio to buffer against illiquidity in any individual market

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Use derivatives in portfolio construction, which tend to be more liquid than individual securities and investment funds

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Lengthen investment horizons to build in sufficient time to recover from losses incurred in disrupted markets, and avoid crowded trades to minimize the riskof entrapment if other market participants attempt to exit simultaneously.

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ディスラプション（破壊的な変革） はこれまでも常に身近にありましたが、私たちは今、「適者生存」の新しいデジタル時代へと移行しつつあります。弊社は、気候テック や人工知能（AI）など、この新しい変化の大きな原動力になっている重要テーマを明らかにしました。ディスラプションは今や、投資家のポートフォリオ構築において不可欠な要素になっています。

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これだけの規模のディスラプションは不安定化の要因になるものの、投資家はこのグローバルな変化に乗じて成長の可能性を求めることができます。テーマ別投資 とサステナビリティが今後、またとない投資機会 をもたらす可能性があります。

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