The LF Woodford Equity Income fund (WEIF) had 85% of its net asset value (NAV) invested in illiquid securities, both listed and unlisted, and as a result would have had to have suspended trading even if it had offloaded all of its unlisted holdings, according to index and data provider MSCI.
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