Evergreen Balanced Fund is composed of US$120 million in international equities andUS$100 million in international bonds based on current market values. Based onprevious stress testing in the case of a market event leading to a liquidity crisis, theFund can sell and receive 94% of market value of assets if it needed to liquidate inthree days but 98.5% of market value if sold in five days. Two institutional investors,a pension fund and a sovereign wealth fund, own 6% and 8% of the share capitalrespectively.

Required:

a) Fears of higher inflation and interest rates have caused market volatility and thetwo institutional investors now wish to exit their holdings in the EvergreenBalanced Fund. What will be the proceeds received by both investors if the Fundliquidates its assets in three days and five days respectively?

b) What is a bank run and how does it differ from this type of liquidation? Whatmeasures can bank regulators implement to minimize the effects of a bank run?List three methods regulators could deploy.

c) For the above Fund if it had issued 30.475 million units what would be the netasset value?