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Stock Market Particpants
Participants in Stock Markets | Regulators in Stock Markets

Today we can find many different kinds of participants who take part in trading. A couple of decades ago there were only individual buyers and sellers, who were wealthy with long family histories of trading in the stock market. Today it is completely different. The markets have become more institutionalized. We can find a large variety of participants.

  • Institutions
    • Pension Funds
    • Insurance Companies
    • Mutual Funds
    • Index Funds
    • Exchange Traded Funds
    • Hedge Funds
  • Investor Groups
  • Banks
  • Other Financial Istitutions
  • Small Individual Investors

Stock Market Regulators Regulatory bodies, which regulate the functioning of the securities markets, constitute a very significant element of securities markets. Since the savings of the investing community namely, public, needs to be protected from various kinds of malpractices, frauds, defaults etc., it was obligatory on the part of the Governing system to establish Regulatory bodies.

UK and USA had long back created separate boards for the regulation of the securities market. U.K has the Securities and Investment Board (SIB) and U.S. has the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). India, by a notification issued on 12th April’1988, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was constituted as an interim administrative body to function under the overall administrative control of the Ministry of Finance of the Central Government.

SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India Issues guidelines and code of conduct for the participants in the stock market. The basic objectives of the Board are:

  • To protect the interests of investors in securities;
  • To promote the development of Securities Market;
  • To regulate the securities market and For matters connected therewith or incidental there to.
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