V sovremennykh usloviyakh funktsionirovaniya mirovoy finansovoy sistemy sushchestvennuyu rol' igrayut institutsional'nye investory, kak finansovye posredniki nedepozitnogo tipa. Usilenie ikh vliyaniya proyavlyaetsya cherez uvelichenie investitsionnykh potokov, kotorye obsluzhivayut strakhovye kompanii, investitsionnye, pensionnye i khedzh-fondy. V rabote raskryvayutsya teoreticheskie aspekty institutsional'nogo investirovaniya, analiziruyutsya osobennosti deyatel'nosti raznykh vidov finansovykh posrednikov. S ispol'zovaniem regressionnogo analiza vyyavlyaetsya vzaimosvyaz' urovnya razvitiya institutsional'nykh investorov i ob"yemov kapitalizatsii 36 birzh, osushchestvlyayushchikh birzhevuyu torgovlyu v raznykh stranakh. Otdel'no rassmatrivaetsya deyatel'nost' khedzh-fondov v Rossii i za rubezhom.