elephant Definition

elephant

Definition

Slang for a large institutional investor such as a mutual fund or pension fund. The term comes from the idea that these investors move huge amounts of money into and out of assets and sectors in a herd-like fashion, having a large impact on security prices when they move.

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elephant is ...
... part of the Mutual Funds and Trading subjects.

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