A small-scale risk-averse shareholder, typically an ordinary person with a mortgage and family.
these companies are collapsing and thousands of mum and dad investors are in jeopardy
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The collapse of so many finance companies, and the losses suffered by so many mum and dad investors, is a festering sore in need of invasive surgery.
Such a popular brand would expect to sell well to mum and dad investors but it will be interesting to see if many institutional investors buy in.
Are these reasonably safe shares for mum and dad investors, people who generally leave their hard-earned savings in the bank?
They're wilfully complicit in visiting a scandalous fraud on ordinary mum and dad investors throughout Australia.
Mum and dad investors were hoodwinked and encouraged to not only gamble their meagre savings on these shares, but take out loans and mortgage redraws as well.
Many mum and dad investors have lost their hard-earned money to defaulted finance companies because of the weak supervision and financial regulation.
This might be an attempt to get mum and dad investors to get involved in capital markets.
All we need now is a downturn in the economy and nobody will be safe, especially workers and mum and dad investors.
The tax was now hitting local mum and dad investors who relied on rent from small second properties to supplement their income or support them in retirement.
They have arranged loans for these anxious mum and dad investors with no deposit or low deposit for second, third, or even fourth investment properties.