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Defending the “Endowment Model”: Quantifying
Liquidity Risk in a Post–Credit Crisis World

Abdullah Z. Sheikh and Jianxiong Sun
The Journal of Alternative Investments Spring 2012, 14 (4) 9-24; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jai.2012.14.4.009
Abdullah Z. Sheikh
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Jianxiong Sun
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This article sets forth the proposition that liquidity risk may be optimized in an attempt to forestall or minimize the impact of a liquidity crisis. For a generic (but typical) endowment asset allocation, the authors find that liquidity levels between 6% and 14% are optimal, all other things equal, because 95% of the time, an allocation in this range would obviate situations in which a portfolio’s payout rate exceeds its liquidity pool. The framework also provides insights for tail-risk events involving a particularly severe liquidity crisis. For a generic endowment portfolio, the analysis indicates that in order to reduce the severity of a liquidity crisis to zero (i.e., eliminate risk completely), the allocation to fixed income would have to be around 35% (close to seven times the payout rate of 5%). Such an allocation would entail a very significant opportunity cost in terms of forgone returns based solely on a desire to mitigate extreme liquidity events (the proverbial “100-year flood”). In the authors’ view, reducing the likelihood of a liquidity crisis to below 5%, may be undesirable for all but the most risk-averse and least returnsensitive endowments.

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The Journal of Alternative Investments Mar 2012, 14 (4) 9-24; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2012.14.4.009

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Abdullah Z. Sheikh, Jianxiong Sun
The Journal of Alternative Investments Mar 2012, 14 (4) 9-24; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2012.14.4.009
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