Q: Hi 5i,
A question related to my flow-through partnership units: I purchased in 2016. Some weeks after purchase, the partnership units were listed in my self-directed account, showing an associated value with a footnote indicating that these are not securities that trade on a daily basis. Initially the listed value was around 23 percent below my actual cost of purchase, which I took as mainly an indication of all the fees and management expenses taken out up front. Since then, the account listed unit price has been adjusted every so often (maybe every couple of weeks or monthly). Gradually the unit price has climbed to where the holding is now a couple of percent in the black (relative to my actual cost). My understanding is that I can’t sell the holding until the partnership units roll over into mutual fund units next year sometime. So my question is: in the meantime, what is that partnership unit price showing in my brokerage account based on? Is it actually something like a present market value estimate (just as though it were possible to market the units currently)? If so, are such estimates normally pretty reliable (so that the account listed value from immediately before the roll-over translates reasonably accurately into the value of the resulting mutual fund units – barring some perfectly timed market collapse of course)? Or is it more of an exercise in fiction? Thanks for any help with my understanding on this!
A question related to my flow-through partnership units: I purchased in 2016. Some weeks after purchase, the partnership units were listed in my self-directed account, showing an associated value with a footnote indicating that these are not securities that trade on a daily basis. Initially the listed value was around 23 percent below my actual cost of purchase, which I took as mainly an indication of all the fees and management expenses taken out up front. Since then, the account listed unit price has been adjusted every so often (maybe every couple of weeks or monthly). Gradually the unit price has climbed to where the holding is now a couple of percent in the black (relative to my actual cost). My understanding is that I can’t sell the holding until the partnership units roll over into mutual fund units next year sometime. So my question is: in the meantime, what is that partnership unit price showing in my brokerage account based on? Is it actually something like a present market value estimate (just as though it were possible to market the units currently)? If so, are such estimates normally pretty reliable (so that the account listed value from immediately before the roll-over translates reasonably accurately into the value of the resulting mutual fund units – barring some perfectly timed market collapse of course)? Or is it more of an exercise in fiction? Thanks for any help with my understanding on this!
