Sentence Correction

finally...

NONE of the answer choices should contain the word "the" in front of "large investors".

not only is it unnecessary, but
* it distorts the meaning (the use of "the" suggests that there are particular large investors of which the reader is aware)
and
* it ruins parallelism, since there's no "the" in front of "small investors".

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whatever source this problem is from, it's of dubious quality.
at least if this problem is any indication.