Almost everyone from veteran investment bankers to retail investors is interested in buying Facebook shares.
With the ease of online trading, retail investors had an insatiable appetite for dot-coms.
For retail investors the gold trade was both a fear and a greed trade.
Trying to provide commercial investment advice to retail investors is not a new idea.
The regulators prevented retail investors from participating, despite the risks being disclosed in a thousand-page prospectus.
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Now, thanks to folks like Dave Cummings, trading costs are falling for institutional and retail investors.
Against this backdrop, Winmill sees people pouring into gold, from retail investors to central banks.
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In the early 1990s, most retail investors followed their stock holdings with brokers over the phone.
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Local retail investors have cut their margin positions sharply, suggesting that they too are net sellers.
"Retail investors aren't taking part because they are getting run over by macro events, " he said.
In other words, money managers and brokers may collude to the detriment of retail investors.
For Asian firms issuing debt, large U.S. fund managers offer advantages relative to retail investors.
In the meantime, expect to see continued disillusionment on the part of retail investors.
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It is now hard to offer a yield that, after fees, looks attractive to retail investors.
Retail investors have exited the trade, taking their very pessimistic money off the table.
Now Japanese retail investors are slowly broadening their horizons to the U.S. and elsewhere.
Retail investors also have the option of investing in ETFs and ETNs, based on Indian stocks.
Institutional investors can buy bonds for capital gains, but retail investors buy bonds for income.
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The Investment Company Act guards against overuse of leverage in mutual funds to protect retail investors.
The stock market rally that began in mid-December has been driven by institutions, not retail investors.
Why should important financial market makers and retail investors pay for excessive spending programs?
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This will sound safe to retail investors, but in fact, the ETFs are very risky.
Some investment advisors are leery about retail investors, particularly ones that have never used options before.
Whether or not managers do so successfully for retail investors is yet to be seen.
That is a daring move for most retail investors, though not an impossible one.
Wall Street firms push stocks to higher and higher levels, bringing in retail investors.
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Stock pickers have had slim pickings, especially retail investors restricted to ADRs trading on the NYSE.
Retail investors will see any further investment in stockmarkets as sending good money after bad.
Keeping millions of retail investors abreast of corporate developments is not as simple as it sounds.
And although the tax is aimed at retail investors, few think it will stop there.
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