Definition for : Investors

Investors are all entities or people who put money at Risk and who expect a Return. Retail investors are ordinary people trading for their own account and Institutional investors are organisations such as banks, Insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, etc. that trade large volumes of securities. See also financial investors.

(See Chapter 2 Cash Flows of the Vernimmen)

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