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{{cassanat|6 | {{cassanat|6|2.10}}A “don’t go there if you really can humanly avoid it” scenario. If your client has gone awol, then be prepared to stick around for ''yonks'' before you can do anything with their assets. | ||
Ok, normally their liquidator should be on top of this, but ''do not underestimate the incompetence of the professional classes''. In any case, there are times when a fund is voluntarily wound down and it is holding, say, distressed equities, or [[contingent value rights]] or something like that, which have no present value but might, just might, have a value in the future, but in the mean time are illiquid (it may not even be permitted to transfer them) — a fund manager might say, “oh hang it” and leave them on the table. | Ok, normally their liquidator should be on top of this, but ''do not underestimate the incompetence of the professional classes''. In any case, there are times when a fund is voluntarily wound down and it is holding, say, distressed equities, or [[contingent value rights]] or something like that, which have no present value but might, just might, have a value in the future, but in the mean time are illiquid (it may not even be permitted to transfer them) — a fund manager might say, “oh hang it” and leave them on the table. | ||
If you are the custodian when one does, make sure you do something: either have the fund gift them to you, or buy them at a nominal value, so you can close out your {{t|CASS}} obligation okay? If for no other reason do this for the mercy of the poor soul who will succeed you — it might still be you, if that start-up [[Reg tech|fin tech]] project doesn’t work out, after all — who will otherwise have to give the happy news to the [[CF10a]] of the future that you are stuck with these goddamn pointless things for the foreseeable future, and the regulator will punish you merrily should you get any part of the holding worthless assets for an insolvent entity wrong. | If you are the custodian when one does, make sure you do something: either have the fund gift them to you, or buy them at a nominal value, so you can close out your {{t|CASS}} obligation okay? If for no other reason do this for the mercy of the poor soul who will succeed you — it might still be you, if that start-up [[Reg tech|fin tech]] project doesn’t work out, after all — who will otherwise have to give the happy news to the [[CF10a]] of the future that you are stuck with these goddamn pointless things for the foreseeable future, and the regulator will punish you merrily should you get any part of the holding worthless assets for an insolvent entity wrong. | ||