Yes, they does. It's their "precious".
Gollum. Gollum. Gollum.
Nota bene:
Mairon the Admirable (Sauron the Abhorred) invested his considerable natural power into the One Ring, in order to increase that power over others; that was his ultimate undoing: When the ring was destroyed, he was enervated.
May it be so with Gyorgy Schwartz (George Soros).