Andrew Aldridge: There should be no grey areas in illiquid investments

Whenever there are adverse headlines regarding an investment product, it is clearly a troubling time for all investors. However, looking at this from a slightly different angle to most of the hyperbole, perhaps this situation raises some interesting and potentially pertinent cross-industry questions about the importance of ensuring investors actually understand what they are investing in. The comments that have caught my attention, which to my knowledge are not suggesting that anything was done to deliberately mislead or that incorrect information was provided, were from investors who st...