Dirt. Curious to know if you heard about this anecdotally, or if you pulled on the thread after seeing that someone had converted their preferred's, and worked backward into the realization that way.
Interesting. It's an idea i've just been toying around with recently, but I'm pretty confident that private markets are actually more efficient than public markets. People tend to equate simmetry of information (where public markets, even though not perfect, are as close to perfect as it gets in real life) with efficiency, but if we define efficiency as maximum rationality in asset allocation, I think private markets out-do public markets just by the fact that the barrier to operate in them is higher and the skin in the game for the participants (in terms of % of their NW) is significantly higher aswell.
I think this is the first time I actually write this down. Great post, as always.
P.S: I assume this specific play has already been arbitred out? Or did he just find out of the market prefs and this is still potentially available?
Thanks for the comment - interesting points. Agree there are times when public markets are more inefficient than privates. The situation has largely played out, meaning prefs are priced much higher now.
Dirt. Curious to know if you heard about this anecdotally, or if you pulled on the thread after seeing that someone had converted their preferred's, and worked backward into the realization that way.
Thanks for the comment - a friend mentioned this situation to me.
Was hoping for the twist at the end that you were the buyer!
I wish!
These are always so great. Thank you, Dirt.
Thank you!
Interesting. It's an idea i've just been toying around with recently, but I'm pretty confident that private markets are actually more efficient than public markets. People tend to equate simmetry of information (where public markets, even though not perfect, are as close to perfect as it gets in real life) with efficiency, but if we define efficiency as maximum rationality in asset allocation, I think private markets out-do public markets just by the fact that the barrier to operate in them is higher and the skin in the game for the participants (in terms of % of their NW) is significantly higher aswell.
I think this is the first time I actually write this down. Great post, as always.
P.S: I assume this specific play has already been arbitred out? Or did he just find out of the market prefs and this is still potentially available?
Thanks for the comment - interesting points. Agree there are times when public markets are more inefficient than privates. The situation has largely played out, meaning prefs are priced much higher now.