The rally seemed to be
driven by retail investors in Asia, with the largest volume being traded on Bithumb and Bitfinex.
To this end, Ross Norman, CEO of bullion firm Sharps Pixley Ltd., just told Bloomberg that «Bitcoin's been heavily
driven by retail investors, but there'll be some aggressive funds looking for the right opportunity to hammer this thing lower.»
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.
Not exact matches
Foreign investment accounts for around 1 per cent of Shanghai - listed A-Shares, a market
driven by Chinese
retail investor sentiment, not fundamentals.
They are all backed
by the physical metal, which makes it easy for
retail investors to understand what is
driving the performance of the fund.
So far, it has been
driven by the constant supply of funds coming from
retail investors, but also to the demand to financial help coming from SMEs.
Any security dominated
by retail investors is going to have a massive amount of volatility
driven by sentiment.
Jason Zweig, in his 2002 investigative report, documented that
retail mutual fund
investors underperformed the average mutual fund
by 4.7 % per annum.7 Again, this poor result is
driven by investors actively switching between funds and market - timing their investment contributions.
This trend has been
driven by the groundswell of demand for alternatives that offer the benefits of liquidity and transparency, and it has created an opportunity for
retail investors to participate in strategies that historically only the ultra-wealthy had access to.
This rally, he said, will be fueled primarily
by institutional
investors, who have only recently begun to enter what has largely been a
retail -
driven market.
«The interest in urban
retail, particularly storefront
retail, is
driven by the Millennials and their preference for live - work - play environments,» Costello says, adding that
investors are getting more comfortable with urban deals.
Driven by a huge demand for warehouse space from e-commerce giant Amazon.com and other online
retailers, industrial properties were the top performers for
investors in