These problems may have been exacerbated by the legacy of a troubled merger, an overweening individual investor and a mediocre management, but they are structural.

Is there a surge in individual investor participation in the markets?

It also detected a manipulative trading pattern by an individual investor to create artificial demand for the airline shares.

Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules.

Active management by an individual investor of core positions generally underperforms passive management after taxes and expenses in real return performance.