Whether or not this will matter to ordinary investors is another consideration.

But can ordinary investors make sense of such a mouthful?

The implications for ordinary investors with access to the Internet are enormous.

Many ordinary investors don't have a clue about its cost.

Spread products are not the first place that many ordinary investors should turn for yield.

If the Government loses this case, the ordinary investor will also lose.

By the time ordinary investors hear the bad news, the stock price has already sunk.

But most ordinary investors will have to wait for at least another week - and probably until after Christmas - before they can sell.

But it is not as clear that ordinary retail investors would face the same problems.

That is much more than what an ordinary investor can learn about nearly any other fund.