Terry Smith suggests platforms exacerbate fund liquidity issues - reports

Smith told the Financial Times: "There is nothing wrong per se with open-ended funds owning [hard to sell] companies. "What is clearly wrong is putting such instruments in a daily dealing fund." Smith added: "But at the moment you can't list a fund on a platform in the UK unless it's a daily dealing fund." Carney warns daily liquidity funds 'built on a lie' The issue of fund liquidity has come under scrutiny following the collapse of Neil Woodford's Woodford Equity Income fund, while earlier this year Mark Barnett sought to reassure investors in his Income and High Income funds ...