Investors should take a long-term bullish view on stocks, says Tom Lee from Fundstrat, as noted in an article in Business Insider. Risk-tolerant Millennials are set to boost the stock…
Tag: Retail Investors
A Cleric Moves Indonesia’s Market
Retail trading in Indonesia has exploded, thanks to Instagram influencers and their millions of followers, contends an article in Bloomberg. One such influencer is Jam’an Nurchotib Mansur, a Muslim cleric…
As Investors Surge Into Market, Demand For Advice Rises
As more newer and younger investors enter the retail market, the demand for advisory services is growing, and has spurred asset managers to provide hybrid advice services that include both…
Before Robinhood, AAII’s Cloonan Championed The Small Investor
Long before Robinhood, James Cloonan founded the American Association of Institutional Investors to help the small investor take on—and beat—the Wall Street establishment, details a profile in Investor’s Business Daily.…
The Investment Table Suckers
Institutional investors (i.e. mutual funds) outperform the market before fees—at the expense of retail investors, who underperform after fees. This conclusion comes from several recent studies, as detailed in an…
Reddit Mania Leads Quants to Rethink Stock Trades
As amateur investors have grown to roughly one-fifth of U.S. equity trading volume, there’s a “palpable fear that the Reddit generation is getting strong enough to disrupt the market patterns…
Robinhood Traders Pack a Punch Five Times Their Assets
Individual investors had an impact five times the size of their assets in the second quarter of 2020, says a new study from the Swiss Finance Institute. This according to…
Questions from Robinhood Trader Reveal “Uninformed Equity-Market Participant”
Researchers at Oklahoma State and Emory University have found that “the popularity of zero-commission brokers has attracted a new type of uninformed equity-market participant that in aggregate has negative effects…
Amid Retail Trading Frenzy, Companies Focus on Small Shareholders
The increases in small, retail investors have some companies looking for new ways to engage with their new shareholders, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “The…
What GameStop’s Crazy Ride Can Teach Us About Investing
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — There’s a saying from Winston Churchill, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, and while the news around the Reddit message board, r/wallstreetbets,…