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The investor in investment company shares is interested in institutional investing because he participates in such invest ment when he buys investment company shares. Secondly, institutional investing has an impact on prices and may influ ence the price, which he pays for his shares. Thirdly, institu tional investing affects and probably will affect to an even larger degree both the securities market and the economy of the nation.

Institutional investing refers to investments made by an in dividual through an intermediary rather than directly. In addi tion to investment companies, closed-end and open-end, these intermediaries include life insurance companies, fire and cas ualty companies, non-insured pension funds, personal trust funds, and common stock trust funds. To be fully inclusive, it would be necessary to list the assets of savings and loan associa tions and the savings deposits of commercial banks as well as the deposits of mutual savings banks. Certified Financial Planner - Read More.