Despite assurances to the contrary, a segment of hedge funds still has as much as $100 billion locked up and won’t allow redemptions. Most hedge fund managers that stopped all redemptions or put illiquid assets into emergency side pockets in 2008 and 2009 told investors they needed two to three years to clear their portfolios so they wouldn’t have to sell hard-to-value assets at fire-sale prices.
Industry observers said time’s up for hedge fund managers that aren’t finished liquidating their portfolios and honoring redemption requests. Most hedge funds that had liquidity problems “have gotten to the point where 95% to 99% of their portfolios are cleaned up,” said a hedge fund-of-funds manager who asked for anonymity. “There are these small dregs left in their portfolios, hedge fund rumps that don’t go away, that you don’t forget about, that are distracting and annoying, but which aren’t headline news.”

Der Bundesrat hat die Botschaft zum zweiten Massnahmenpaket der 6. Revision der Invalidenversicherung zu Handen des Parlaments verabschiedet. Mit dieser "IV-Revision 6b" erfüllt er dessen Auftrag, die IV insbesondere mit Einsparungen zu sanieren. Das Paket stellt sicher, dass die IV ab Ende der befristeten Mehrwertsteuererhöhung, also ab 2018, finanziell auf eigenen Beinen steht. Die Revision 6b zielt überdies darauf ab, bis 2025 die Schulden der IV beim AHV-Fonds vollständig zurück zu zahlen, also bis zu einer Phase, in welcher die AHV auf genügend Liquidität angewiesen sein wird. Die Revision 6b soll 2015 in Kraft treten.