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You say "institutional investors" as if it's their money they're losing. It isn't. It's everybody's 401(k)s and IRAs, held through mutual funds that disenfranchise them from being able to vote their shares and put that power in the hands of the "institutions" (read: fund managers) instead.
Point is, not only is Musk still fucking over real-people shareholders, they're the second-class ones who can't even do anything about it!
No.
Took me all of 2 seconds: here
Notice the mutual funds in here? That person is right.
...Are you stupid? Do you know what things like Blackrock and Vanguard are, and what they do? The entire point of those companies is that they hold and invest other people's money.
Yes, they have more money than small nations. They are using their CAPITAL to invest. It's literally a legal requirement to do so in all developed markets, and these are global companies doing so. They are spending your retirement doing it. They're spending thebinsane amount of money you give them as a fee to do it. They'd be in court today if they were doing what you're suggesting. In the US, anything designated as a retirement fund is only held my institutions (banks) that designate themselves as such, and SEC regulations prevent them from using any NON-CAPITAL cash from investing in this way.
You don't have a goddamned clue what you're talking about. We're not talking about banks illegally investing people's savings accounts; we're talking about non-banks investing people's retirement accounts that they've specifically been advised are not FDIC insured and can lose money. You're confusing two very different things.
The bottom line is that it very much IS REGULAR PEOPLE'S MONEY that they're using, NOT THEIR OWN MONEY! The fund managers themselves have no skin in the game. The owners of Blackrock itself (holders of individual shares in Blackrock, not Blackrock-administered mutual funds) have no skin in the game. The owners of Vanguard only have skin in the game because it's got a weird corporate structure where it's owned by its funds, but even then the money that Vanguard is investing didn't come from Vanguard's revenue; it's all money that they're handling on behalf of clients (i.e. regular people) who own shares in Vangaurd-administered mutual funds. It's those clients who gain or lose money depending on the funds' performance, not Vanguard or Blackrock -- the fund companies just get revenue by charging fees (i.e. the expense ratio, etc.).
Sorry to say after you wrote all that, but you're describing malfeasance from a FUND HOLDER. Last I checked, the companies you describe are fund targets, not holders. You should get in touch with the people investing your money then, because none of these X shareholders are administrators of funds.
~~The things that you're saying are just flat-out factually untrue. You didn't "check" anything, or if you did you certainly didn't understand it. Go educate yourself before you keep being confidently incorrect.~~
Edit: Actually, I've got a better idea: how about you tell me how you think companies like Blackrock or Vanguard work? I genuinely want to understand how you came about such huge misconceptions.