Talk:Financial market participants

Comprehensiveness
I don't think we do the reader any favours by having such a brief article as the lead article for a series. It needs to mention all the major participants, and have some reason from the economics or finance literature for categories. As a layman, it seems to me that whole categories of participants are missing from the article. Without borrowers, there would be no investors. And where are the treasury departments who buy and sell currency and commodities in order to conduct trade, that give the currency and commodity markets their reason for being? I am afraid I don't have the expertise or the time to expand this. But I may well pitch in and propose dismantling the series until its headline article is more compelling. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 22:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree, I see stereotypes instead of a real taxonomy, and nearly no relevant information. --Pgreenfinch (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Beneficial Shareholder / Registered Shareholder
Could someone create these two subjects as separate Wiki entries, referring against the other. They are very important and fundamentally different. Example: owning, and holding "physical gold" is not the same as "paper Gold". Both have advantages, and disadvantages. Some prefer to have total hold of their investment, others are happy to quickly "wheel and deal". Having a share certificate in your name and your hand, is very different than having someone else owning it, and holding it for you.

1. A Beneficial Shareholder is a retail investor who holds shares of their securities in the account of a bank or broker, also known as “in Street Name.” The broker is in possession of the securities on behalf of the underlying shareholder.

2. A Registered Shareholder is a retail investor who holds shares of their securities directly through the issuer or its transfer agent. Many registered shareholders have physical copies of their stock certificates. is a retail investor who holds shares of their securities directly through the issuer or its transfer agent.

Investor / Trader
Income and Expenditure may be dealt with differently for Tax purposes for a "Share Trader" than a "Investor" or "Share Holder".

Being "deemed" an Investor or a Trader can make significant changes to calculations for tax, profit or loss.

Example re Australia.


 * Investors have a Capital Gains discount benefit which Traders do not have.


 * For an Investor "the net loss from the sale of shares may not be offset against income from other sources, but may be carried forward to offset against future capital gains made from the sale of shares"


 * Trading as a business results in many "business expenses" incurred in buying or selling "trading stock" becoming allowable deductions each financial year they are incurred, which they do not for an "Investor".

Find NOT so clear is whether a Trader with "net loss" may offset against other income.

See: Carrying on a business of share trading as Modified: Monday, 23 June 2008

Also see: The difference between a share trader and a share holder as Modified: Monday, 23 June 2008

Pwparker (talk) 03:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC) Pwparker

Supply side versus Demand side
I have never encountered these terms. In the US the terms are buyside and sellside for investors and brokers. Is this an UK version? ThanksWikiDorset (talk) 19:23, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Here are some raw links to sources, that appear to use those terms in context:
 * The Domestic Financial Market and the Trade Liberalization Outcome: The ... By Prema-chandra Athukorala, Sarath Rajapatirana
 * Stability in International Finance: Applications of Price Disequilibrium Theory By Frederick Betz
 * The Role of Financial Markets in the Transition Process edited by Emilio Colombo, Edward John Driffill
 * User:HopsonRoad 20:35, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Rewrite of this article
I intend to rewrite this article, making it an index to the many other articles already available and related to the subject. I plan to have two major categories: 1. Financial Markets; and 2. Participants. For example, there are robust articles on the Bond, Commodity, Capital, Foreign Exchange, Interbank Lending, and Stock markets. This should guide a reader from a very broad overview to the many types of financial markets and their participants to specific articles on each subject. Any with objections, please let me know. WikiDorset (talk) 23:56, 17 May 2017 (UTC)