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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4416041, member: 73489&quot;]Most people don&#039;t understand that you need LIQUIDITY to move big sums for super-wealthy investors or large institutions.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t buy $2 billion or $10 billion or $25 billion of any kind of fixed-income investment and hope to not move the market.&nbsp; The only 2 bond markets globally that trade in sufficient size (and are big enough in the aggregate) are the U.S. Treasury and Mortgage-Backed Security sectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>They each trade about about $500 billon and $300 billion a day.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next largest is way down the list, maybe $40 billion a day (either British Gilts or the entire U.S. corporate market).&nbsp; I haven&#039;t checked the rankings lately.&nbsp; But the point remains:&nbsp; you can&#039;t put $10 billion into a market that is $40 billion.&nbsp; $300 billion or more, you can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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