retail investors
Small-scale market participants
Retail investors are individual people who buy and sell securities—stocks, bonds, mutual funds—for their own personal accounts rather than on behalf of an institution.
The term distinguishes ordinary investors from institutional investors like hedge funds, pension funds, and banks, who trade in much larger volumes and often have access to better information and pricing.
Retail investors drove the GameStop stock surge in 2021.
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- index fundsSecurities mirroring market indices
- 401k plansTax-advantaged workplace savings accounts
- bondsTies that unite
- Main StreetTown's central thoroughfare
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- investorsinvestor, co-investor, institutional investor, value investor, angel investor
- Meme StocksGME, AMC, GameStop, Bed Bath Beyond, stonks
- entitiesentity, being, object, thing, item
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- GameStopGameStop, trade-ins, store credit, used games, preorders
- Stock ExchangesNYSE, NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange
retail investorsinstitutional investors
Organizations investing pooled funds
hedge funds · pension funds · asset managers · endowments · investment banks