What Is an Institutional Investor, and How Do They Impact Stock Volatility?

Our advice is geared toward helping the individual investor make smart moves in stocks, but in the landscape of the markets, there are also giants: the institutional investors. But what precisely is the border between regular investor and institutional investor, and how much capacity do those deep-pocketed organizations have to make share prices dance? And if the big money hasn’t found a stock yet, is that a good metric for considering it “off the radar."

In this segment of the Motley Fool Money podcast, host Chris Hill and Fool senior analysts Ron Gross, Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser parse the definitions, and consider how the behaviors of institutions ripple across Wall Street.
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