Institutional Investor Ownership
The cluster revolves around discussions clarifying that institutional investors like pension funds, index funds, Vanguard, and BlackRock hold shares on behalf of individual retail investors, endowments, and public savings rather than as their own proprietary assets.
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They were and are still to an extent institutional investors no? Aren't those public funds?
The people investing in the funds.
You mean, like pension funds trading the stock market?
Which people?Def not mom-and-pop investors who use pension funds and wealth managers/advisors to keep their investments in (usually) diversified portfolios.
This fund is probably not for retail investors, i guess pension funds or similar institutions invest in it.
The money you are talking about belongs to pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, etc. If the money went missing, people would notice. People wouldn’t be able to retire, schools would shutdown, countries would face hard times, etc. The idea that institutional investors get their money from primarily individuals is a common misconception.
Sources? Pension funds tend to not be socially-minded
Keep in mind that institutional investors like index funds hold share on behalf of indvidual persons.
How about a blind trust of index funds? Those blind trusts aren't always blind.
Aren't most of these holdings through funds? It's not Blackrock, Vanguard or Fidelity that's holding those shares, it's people and institutions who are investing in their funds.