Mutual funds are often restricted to allocate certain percentages of fund assets to certain securities that have different degrees of illiquidity. However, the existing literature on how mutual funds should trade has largely ignored the coexistence of position limits and differential illiquidity...

Mutual funds are often restricted to allocate certain percentages of fund assets to certain securities that have different degrees of illiquidity. The coexistence of these restrictions and asset illiquidity and the interactions among them are important for the optimal trading strategy of a...

We study the optimal trading strategy of mutual funds that face both position limits and differential illiquidity. We provide explicit characterization of the optimal trading strategy and conduct an extensive analytical and numerical analysis of the optimal trading strategy. We show that the...