Society relies on well-functioning capital markets to promote economic progress in businesses and households. To that goal, academics argue that capital markets should provide for price discovery and liquidity, where the best way to find out what an asset is worth is to attempt to sell it. As long as there are a large number of market participants, bidding among them leads to price discovery, and an asset is sold quickly resulting in liquidity. Moreover, in a well functioning market the price should be close to its intrinsic value. But academic assumptions aside, is it not the case that institutional and private investors have the same expectations.
