>Different companies have different allocations but healthy companies (including google) have allocations into a diverse bucket of asset classes OK, but that's

>Different companies have different allocations but healthy companies (including google) have allocations into a diverse bucket of asset classes OK, but that's different from your "you can't just take corporate cash and invest it in a private equity fund". If you'd written instead, "having their employees carry some of the equity risk is a way for SoftBank to increase the size of the private equity fund while continuing to make sure that they have enough cash to continue operations", I wouldn't've felt the need to call you out. I don't know enough about Japan to say, but if it were a US company making this move, I would be more inclined to believe that the loans are mostly intended as a perk for employees like this comment claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736072