Performing anonymity: Investors, brokers, and the malleability of material identity information in financial markets Aaron Z. Pitluck Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Illinois State University Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago February 12, 2016 Under review at Research in Economic Anthropology 36. Keywords Keywords Keywords Keywords Investor behavior, Brokerage, Equity markets, Insider trading, Malaysia, Finance; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology JEL Classifications JEL Classifications JEL Classifications JEL Classifications D4: Market Structure, Pricing, and Design D81 Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty D82: Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design G11 Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions G14: Information and Market Efficiency; Insider Trading G18: Government Policy and Regulation G23: Institutional Investors G24: Brokerage Z1: Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology