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01/12/16

Wall Street Journal

Has the presence of institutional investors caused this country's biggest banks to act as if they were a big monopoly? That's the question a group of economists asked in a paper. The scholars found banks will make their customers pay more in fees and offer less in interest on deposit certificates when institutional investors invest in competing banks. Consequently, the presence of the same investor from company to company can begin to make...

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