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Won’t this force them to go public? Too many shareholders?
by alex_young 6y ago
Won’t this force them to go public? Too many shareholders?
- ceejayoz 6y agoI suspect they own the shares, and you own a fund that is made up of those shares. I own a Vanguard index fund instead of individual shares, for example. I don’t get to vote in shareholder meetings and whatnot.
- repsilat 6y agoAs I understand it, you technically never get forced to go public -- you just get forced into reporting as if you're a publicly traded company. At which point most companies figure they might as well.
- phyalow 6y agoEquity Swaps. You will own a derivative not the underlying.
- neximo64 6y agoJPN can hold them as nominee
- crmd 6y agoYou can get around that with a performance-linked note. The bank owns the equity and issues a note whose value is explicitly linked to the valuation of the underlying stock.
- vlovich123 6y agoI feel like that’s a distinction created just to let bankers skirt rules. Like what Carl Icahn and Soros did which by any sane rule book would be insanely illegal.
- globular-toast 6y agoYou are now qualified to be a banker.