Acting as a Principal

Categories: Trading, Ethics/Morals

Acting as a Principal doesn't mean you get to suspend a bunch of snotty ten-year-olds for smoking behind the gym.

If a broker or a firm is acting as a principal, it acts as either the buyer or the seller for its own account, or as the main party when buying or selling.

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this on halloween Okay this one's really about acting as

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a principal How versus acting as an agent princip al

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equals owner agent equals a commission taker principal The end

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result like how well or poorly and investment performs determines

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success Agent whether or not a commission happens determines success

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Principal The party responsible for a given system or project

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or event being successful agent the party responsible for getting

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people teo just spend money on that event Principal developer

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The person risking capital to make say a commercial building

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Make money for investors Agent the person who sold office

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units in that commercial building Principal the portfolio manager the

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buy side player region the stockbroker the sell side player

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