General Investing
  -General information about
  getting started.
Stocks
  -How investing in the stock
  market works
Bonds
  -How bond investing works
Mutual Funds
  -How mutual funds work
Economics
  -A basic intro to the economy
Advanced Investing Topics
  -This section covers topics
   like futures and options

Institution
Term category: General Investing
In 10 words or less:  An institution is a large organization that invests on its behalf or the behalf of others.

Definition: An institution is a large organization--such as a college endowment, pension fund, insurance company, etc--that invests in securities on its own behalf or the behalf of its members/investors.

Advice: Institutional investors have considerable pull in the financial markets.  Because they invest millions or even billions of dollars, they have a greater ability to affect change at companies.  Many activist hedge funds have even been successful in getting seats on the board of directors of various companies.

 

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