A person, either natural or juristic, that purchases and holds any investment in a security. On the JSE, most of the investors are institutions (pension funds, unit trusts and insurance companies) who account for about 90% of all trades. The other 10% of investors are private investors. For this reason, the institutional investors completely dominate the JSE. They are different from private investors in the following ways:
For more on the various types of investors refer to our lecture module 5.
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