Dwayne Neil says liquidity is a strategic advantage for investors

7 articles · Updated · Jamaica Observer · May 3

Writing in The Sterling Report, he says Jamaica is especially exposed to fuel, electricity, import and borrowing-cost shocks from conflict, trade tensions and disrupted shipping routes.
Neil argues investors should prioritise financial flexibility, favouring globally traded fixed-income securities, diversified portfolios and other liquid vehicles over chasing marginally higher returns in harder-to-exit assets.
He warns many Jamaican portfolios are concentrated in real estate, private placements and thinly traded instruments, increasing concentration risk when inflation stays high, rates remain elevated and conditions shift quickly.

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