Sentences with phrase «when ordinary investors»

Economic theory that predicts harmful market failures due to the information asymmetries that are present when ordinary investors rely on advisers who are far more expert than them, but highly conflicted

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When the bond matures, the second investor must include as ordinary, taxable income ten points of gain (the revised issue price at acquisition of 70, less the purchase price of 60).

This is very rare, but when it happens, it leaves a lot of very unhappy investors; their coupon payments are taxed as ordinary income and, if they choose to sell the bond, the price they receive will be reduced because buyers would require a higher yield on a taxable bond.

Ordinary investors are significantly at risk when they short stocks.

What I mean is that when an investor holds XSP in a taxable account, any dividends received are treated as ordinary income and taxed at marginal rates.

The part of the article that most caught my attention was when this investor said that, despite the stress, he must hang tough because, «For ordinary Americans, the stock market is just about the only way to make money... you have to play.»