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> "Siemens is an investment bank that happens to own All conglomerates are like this, the clearest example is Berkshire Hathaway.

• guyzero 6y ago
  Exactly. Why not break up Berkshire?
  • martin_bech 6y ago
    Berkshire is for all intents broken up, everything operates independently.
  • perl4ever 6y ago
    I vaguely think people have written how having the insurance business attached to the others is a useful/complementary structure, compared to a regular mutual fund or something. Maybe you could ask from the opposite perspective, why aren't all mutual funds organized like BRK?