Chapter 2

Market Participants

Abstract

Financial intermediaries provide customers with financial instruments that cannot efficiently be obtained by making direct transactions on security markets.

Keywords

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stock exchange
business model
IPO
order
execution
investment activities
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2.1. Financial intermediaries

Financial intermediaries provide customers with financial instruments that cannot efficiently be obtained by making direct transactions on security markets.
Consider:
An investment fund collects money from small investors and invests a lump sum into a security, thereby achieving a price discount ...

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