Sentences with phrase «of ordinary investors»

Through a transfer of wealth in the billions of dollars from Main Street to Wall Street, VCs, unscrupulous CEOs, and bankers had effectively enriched themselves at the expense of hundreds of thousands of ordinary investors, leaving them to despair about their futures.

South Korean family - run business empires like Samsung Group have a reputation for low dividend payouts and other governance practices that favour controlling shareholders at the expense of ordinary investors.

South Korea has seen the most frenzied surge of ordinary investors throwing their savings into Bitcoin and other digital tokens.

«Millions of ordinary investors could be offered a pre-election sweetener next year in the form of cheap shares in Lloyds.

Also on the list are speculative non-dividend paying stocks and people, those who use margin or debt to leverage their positions, and those who advertise their willingness to purchase certain securities: again, well outside the realm of the ordinary investor trying to create a little tax - free dividend or interest income.

On social media there seem to be a lot of ordinary investors taken aback by this, even though as I have said on Twitter, 99.99 % of the almost 10 million Canadians who have a TFSA hardly need to worry about this obscure attack on a few sophisticated frequent traders of speculative stocks in their accounts.

The rise and fall of Wall Street brokers Throughout much of the 20th century, Wall Street brokerage firms dominated the financial scene, reaping huge profits on the backs of ordinary investors who paid hundreds or even thousands of dollars in commissions just to buy regular shares of blue chip stocks.

For one, it is well within the reach of ordinary investors, and two, it is four times as abundant as Bitcoin.