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institutional investor

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  1. An organization, such as a government, labor union, or business, that makes investments, especially in stock and bond markets.


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Institutional investors account for a majority of investments made in the United States.

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ETF activity has been an indicator of institutional investor interest in cryptocurrencies, which has been low through the first-half of the year as money flowed into more lucrative assets like AI and semiconductor stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Software debt comprised 17% of institutional investor debt in MSCI’s data set by late 2025, up from 12% in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

“It will tell every CEO, every board, every institutional investor, every government, and every ambitious young engineer that the direction has been set,” Blackman wrote of SpaceX’s IPO.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

Another asks: "Are you heartbroken you gave the institutional investor preference over the equity punks, James? An arrangement that ensured we received no return on our investments."

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

You know, Ben said to Charlie and Jamie, if you established yourself as a serious institutional investor, you could phone up Lehman Brothers or Morgan Stanley and buy eight-year options on whatever you wanted.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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