Investors
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Learn about the different types of investors and their role in the securities market
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Okay, so now we've created the infrastructure. We now need investors to invest in the securities market. Now the largest number of investors is individuals. Individuals will do this is on, on an execution only mode through their stockbrokers or through their bank. Or they may do it with some advice, either from a, a wealth management unit or from a financial advisor. Or for those that are uber rich, they might be using their family offices. Now, individuals might invest through investment vehicles such as unit trusts and ISRs are, are funds that tend to be made up mainly of securities and, and in various different markets around the world, depending on what type of unit trust or ICER it is. Investment trusts, very much of the same ilk. And then there is the hedge fund market who will look to make money outta trading equities, whether that be shorting a market or looking for the upside in some equity trading. Then there are the institutional investors, whether that be the pension funds, which clearly my pension is part of a pension fund or whether it be the sovereign wealth managers, those that look after the sovereign wealth of countries,, insurance companies, charities, or in some instances it can even just be corporates who are looking to get a different type of yield from some of their long assets rather than just what cash can provide or by investing in bonds.