Real money

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A “real money” investor is one who funds investments at their full value, and has no truck with leverage, margin lending or unfunded derivatives. Thus, sensible, safe, comparatively low-risk: these are the good guys of the investment management world: if they blow up, it is their own problem, and not someone else’s. Unless you count the pensioners whose money they are managing, of course.