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You may own a piece of big business if you belong to a pension plan or invest in mutual funds. Through such funds, the middle class owns much of big corporations, including McDonald's.
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Who owns the mighty General Electric Company? Check out the official records and you'll find a significant piece of it belongs to middle class people such as Alabama's teachers and public employees.
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If you teach, work at a university, or a non-profit organization, you may make retirement contributions through TIAA-CREFF, the mutual fund and pension fund company. And, if your do contribute to through TIAA-CREFF, you would have been among the owners of just over 1-million shares of Chubb, the big insurance company, at the end of 2013
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Over the past 60 years or so (depending on which country you live in), ownership of big corporationshas shifted from rich people to working people. At the beginning of the Ownership Revolution, the rich owned almost all of the stock in big companies. Today, that’s reversed, with the majority of stocks in most big corporations belonging to working, or middle class people, through pension funds and mutual funds.
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...we look at ownership of a corporation by a philanthropic organization, specifically, ownership of a big piece of Gap Inc., the retailing giant which owns not only Gap stores, but also Old Navy and Banana Republic. One of the biggest of the institutional owners is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which describes itself this way at its website,
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They [Dick and Maurice McDonald] built the new model on what they called the Speedee Service System. While the earlier McDonald’s operation reflected the automobile driving revolution, Speedee reflected the manufacturing revolution that led to mass production of cars on assembly lines
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Texas state employees who participate in the Employees Retirement System owned 100,500 shares of Tiffany's at year-end 2013, shares valued at more than $9 million. Altogether, institutional investors (mainly pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies) owned 78.3% of Tiffany's shares at the end of 2013, according to nasdaq.com.
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If you invest in mutual funds or ETFs, you likely know whether or not you invest through BlackRock. But, there's a possibility you may invest through BlackRock, without knowing, through a pension fund. BlackRock manages investments for many pension funds and other institutional investors.
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On this day, Tupperware's first ex-dividend day of 2014, let's consider globalization of retirement funds. More specifically, let's discuss how all Norwegians, through their government-sponsored pension fund, are significant owners of Tupperware, the company that makes those ubiquitous plastic containers.
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In discussing Baby Boomers, and their retirement, we often refer to them as a monolithic group. But, as Sherry Cooper points out in her 2008 book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future, ”While much was made in the media about the oldest boomers turning 60 in 2006, this group is a relatively small proportion of the Canadian and U.S. population. Most boomers are in their mid-40s, with another 20 years to go until retirement…. The boomer retirement wave will not crest until 2025.” (p. 25)
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As of last December 31st, less than 11% of Books-A-Million's shares were owned by institutional investors (pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies). And among the remaining pension funds, we see the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) with 11,600 shares, valued between $26 and $27 thousand dollars.
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Ohio may not be near any salt-water seas, but its teachers are big owners of SeaWorld Entertainment, the theme park company. So, when SeaWorld (SEAS) announced its fourth quarter and full year 2013 results, the teachers would have been interested.
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So, who are these middle class, working people I’ve referred to so often in these blog posts? By and large, they’re the middle class, people who are neither very rich nor very poor. I call them working people because they get all or most of their income from working, rather than from invested capital.
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The Arizona State Retirement System owned 108,100 shares [of Foot Locker] as of closing on December 31st, 2013, and at that time the shares were worth just over $5 million (according to nasdaq.com).
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Make the most of your investments by knowing and choosing the right type of mutual funds for your needs.
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Public employees in Ohio are among the big owners of Google stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Google profits.
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Ontario teachers share in the dividends of motorcycle maker Harley Davidson; their pension fund owned some 44-thousand shares of the iconic manufacutrer at the end of 2013.
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Institutional investors, pension funds and mutual funds, are among the big owners of McDonald's stock. That means a big holding by middle class people.
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Almost 60% of Proctor & Gamble's publicly traded stock is owned by institutional investors, meaning pension funds and mutual funds. In turn, In turn, that means much of Proctor & Gamble is owned by middle class citizens saving for retirement.
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The linkages here show our perspective needs to be global.... In this case, we see Canadian police officers and soldiers buying stock in an American company, which used that capital to help it expand into Latin America. In turn, those same police and soldiers will see their retirement incomes bolstered with profits DIRECTV makes in Latin America.
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Vanguard represents an interesting case in our exploration of the Ownership Revolution.... Not only does the Vanguard Group provide vehicles for investing, but it's also owned by the same investors. So, if you invest in a Vanguard fund, you're also investing in the Vanguard company which manages the fund.
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More than 70% of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners'
publicly traded stock is owned by institutional investors, meaning pension funds and mutual funds. In turn, In turn, that means much of Boardwalk Pipeline is owned by middle class citizens saving for retirement.
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92% of Western Union's stock is owned by institutional investors, including mutual funds and pension funds like the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.
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Oregon's public employees had a stake in an earnings announcement from Corrections Corporation of America; through their pension fund they owned 24,654 shares at the close of trading on September 30, 2013.
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New York State teachers are among the big owners of Marathon Petroleum stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Marathon's profits.
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Public employees in Florida are among the big owners of Apple stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Apple profits.
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Teacher Retirement System of Texas members are among the big owners of Yahoo stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Yahoo profits.
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Public employees in Wisconsin are among the big owners of Facebook stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Facebook profits.
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Public employees in Louisiana are among the big owners of New York Times stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to New York Times' profits.
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Public employees in Colorado are among the big owners of Michael Kors stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Michael Kors profits.
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Public employees in Arizona are among the big owners of Yum Brands stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to Yum Brands' profits.
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Public employees in Tennessee are among the big owners of MasterCard stock, and the fortunes of their retirement income are tied, in part, to MasterCard profits.
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You may own a piece of McDonald's, if you belong to a pension plan or invest in mutual funds. Find out what it all means...
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