That may not be the worst thing, given the excesses that led the the bubble bursting five and a half years ago, but Alpert thinks one of the knock-on effects is housing demand from institutional investors masking the fact that shadow inventory is still a significant overhang on the market.
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This causes institutional investors to dump shares despite the fact that little may have changed for the company.
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Not just the rollback in institutional support for credit counseling, the fact that there are tangibly fewer consumers actually seeking help is likewise inexplicable.
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What the 1960s unleashed in fact was romantic love without an institutional setting.
This is a fact of life with which both individual and institutional investors have to deal.
Moreover, all the legal and institutional arrangements needed to cope with enlargement were, in fact, settled by the Treaty of Nice, which was agreed less than three years ago.
Chris Richey: We're biased, but we think the greatest sin in modern American stock investing is the fact that both U.S. individual and institutional investors are typically over-exposed to and over-diversified in the U.S. market while being significantly under-exposed to International stock markets.
In fact, more than 70 percent of the market is institutional money that typically has no tax mandate on their returns.
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The fact that the Schwab Advisor Network is comprised of Schwab Institutional customers is not a major conflict since most advisors custody at Schwab, the largest provider of these services.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that planners give so much discretion to trustees, and institutional trustees (trust companies) demand all sorts of releases from liability, etc.
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Throw in the fact that preferred issues are usually small and illiquid, limiting their appeal to institutional investors.
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What is also positive is -- if there's a silver lining in this whole process, it's the fact that I think European leaders recognize that there are some structural reforms, institutional modifications they need to make if Europe and the eurozone is to be as effective as they want it to be.
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