Extension: Valuing illiquid and ‘hard to value’ assets

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-107 · 2026-08-08

Valuing illiquid and ‘hard to value’ assets defines fair value as the price obtainable in an orderly transaction between market participants and identifies it as the reporting basis at discrete times. This supplies the benchmark relevant to Kaal's warning that thin-market exchange quotes may not indicate contemporaneous fair market value. The abstract does not establish which valuation inputs are reliable for every illiquid asset.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level extension.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source defines fair value as the price obtainable in an orderly transaction between market participants and identifies it as the reporting basis at discrete times. This supplies the benchmark missing when thin-market exchange quotes fail to indicate contemporaneous fair market value, while it does not establish which inputs reliably estimate fair value for every illiquid asset.

Current debate

Valuing illiquid and ‘hard to value’ assets

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:1428387-013
Kaal, Hedge Fund Valuation Retailization, Regulation, and Investor Suitability (2009). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1428387
Source PDF sha256: 6aa3a280dc6750723be2389f3af2aabf3a16c4ce20e49fcdaddd7f2ea95a67aa

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level extension
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

defi economics empirical-evidence historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0011-remainder-0002-oldest-0050-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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