For years, Japan's stock market has been dominated by day traders and foreign institutional investors.
They have also sparked interest from foreign institutional investors, who were conspicuously absent at the start.
Totoscommesse is run by Snai, which is part of Trenno, a listed company with large foreign institutional investors.
Foreign institutional investors and their sub-accounts can invest directly into any of the stocks listed on any of the stock exchanges.
Foreign institutional investors mainly consist of mutual funds, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, banks, asset management companies etc.
Foreign institutional investors seem to think this bird can still fly.
The bottom line: If continued, sales of Chinese listed banks shares by foreign institutional investors could cause a major correction of the Shanghai and Hong Kong Exchanges.
The three control roughly 30% of China Petrochemical Development and have been courting foreign institutional investors and proxies to gain enough votes for their candidates to win board seats.
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Foreign institutional investors were doing most of the buying.
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Moreover, foreign institutional investors display strong herd instincts.
We will watch Senate and the House conversations on how this emerges and predict this will be a bipartisan 2013 comprehensive immigration bill that will not only create more jobs and keep brain capital in the US but also increase a momentum of retail investors and foreign institutional investors investing in emerging managers in private equity.
Offer large, attractive, foreign direct-investment opportunities for institutional investors.
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But until February 2005 India prohibited pension funds and other institutional investors--both foreign and domestic--from putting money into real estate, except for IT parks, factories and hotels.
One of them is the decline in domestic institutional stock ownership, and the rise in ownership by foreign investors.
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In response, regulators have cut trading costs, are reforming new listing rules and are encouraging long-term institutional investors such as pension funds, both local and foreign, to enter the market.
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Currently, foreign investors have limited access to Chinese markets except through programs such as the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor, or QFII, program.
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So do institutional investors such as banks, multinational corporations and central banks that need to hedge against foreign currency value fluctuations.
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