Not exact matches
Until the 1970s, the investment landscape was largely dominated
by wealthy
individuals and families; this has
since changed markedly, with professional
investors now accounting for the largest share of investment activity, though it should be noted that these professionals manage significant mutual fund asset pools that are driven
by retail
investors.
Smith Barney,
since the early nineteenth century was intent on helping the
individual to invest
by beginning with recommended low risk mutual funds for the novice
investor.
Interest rates have been on the rise
since 2013, but the latest move
by the 10 - year U.S. Treasury above 3 % has brought the trend to the attention of more
individual investors.
The main argument
by Malkiel to this point has been made
by many before:
Since stock prices can not be predicted in the short term,
individual investors are better off buying and holding an index fund instead of «meddling» with
individual securities or even active managed funds.
Since stocks that have gone down the most are likely to be sold towards the end of each tax year (which ends in December for most
individuals)
by investors, their prices may be pushed down
by the tax loss selling.
Luckily,
since it's particularly hard for most non-professionals to calculate values for
individual stocks, this focus on the short term
by professionals is also a huge advantage for
individual investors who follow an intelligently and logically designed strategy like our value - weighted index.
Since such investment activities are generally beyond the reach of
individual investors, the company issues publicly traded stocks so retail
investors can also invest in real estate
by holding their stocks.
As Laurens Ankersmit has argued with regard to
Investor - state dispute settlement, «the ECJ particularly objects to the establishment of other courts for claims
by individuals where questions of EU law are involved,
since this is so central to the preliminary reference procedure and the uniform and consistent interpretation and application of EU law».