institutional investor
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Institutional investors account for a majority of investments made in the United States.
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An institutional investor is anchoring a $35 million PIPE, or private investment in public equity, alongside the de-SPAC transaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
After UniCredit disclosed a 10.95% acceptance level of its proposal, the German bank said it hadn’t identified any institutional investor tendering shares into the offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The problem: “Like Crazy Eddie, for those that remember him, the fees are ‘insane,’” says institutional investor Michael Weinberg, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.
From Barron's ● May 21, 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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