Who Owns Big Pharma + Big Media? You’ll Never Guess.

The Defender ^ | Joe Mercola

[tired&retired]

BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, combined own The New York Times and other legacy media, along with Big Pharma.

Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two asset management firms: BlackRock and Vanguard.

Drug companies are driving COVID-19 responses — all of which, so far, have endangered rather than optimized public health — and mainstream media have been willing accomplices in spreading their propaganda, a false official narrative that leads the public astray and fosters fear based on lies.

Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape.

BlackRock and Vanguard form a secret monopoly that own just about everything else you can think of too. In all, they have ownership in 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.

Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock. Vanguard itself, on the other hand, has a unique structure that makes its ownership more difficult to discern, but many of the oldest, richest families in the world can be linked to Vanguard funds.

“A Bloomberg report states that both these companies in the year 2028, together will have investments in the amount of 20 trillion dollars. That means that they will own almost everything.’”

Interestingly, Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock, as of March 2021. Vanguard itself, on the other hand, has a “unique” corporate structure that makes its ownership more difficult to discern.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The Peasants just try to hang on by their fingernails and have to accept the fact that they have neither political nor economic power.

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin to all of the monopolists.

[No.6]

>‘Vanguard’ doesn’t own Pfizer, mutual fund holders who own vanguard funds own those shares

This. Vanguard owns stuff because they offer shares in passive (not controlled) funds that are cheap (% load) so regular people buy ‘em up in 401Ks.

It’s more accurate to say Vanguard broke the stranglehold on capital previously held by expensive, manipulative brokers and brokerages. Countermoves against the money people like the Gamestop craziness would never have been possible in a world where you had to ask your broker to place orders for you.

[boycott]

Here’s a good example of how Blackrock and Vanguard prop up globalist PC agenda driven stock prices. Zuckerberg answers to them.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-shareholders-facebook-fb.asp

[Bell Bouy II]

Thank you for adding
some logic to this misleading report.

Any time I look at single issue stock holding I look at individual and Corporate holders.
VG is usually one of the largest on a 4/5 star firm only because they hold the issue in one of their many 4/5 star rated mutual funds.
This noise is no dif than Eric Gene or what ever he hails to, making noise with the ATT is CNN mantra. All noise

[bobbo666]

Ownership is not all that important. Control is. At any ordinary stockholders meeting any entity or collection thereof exceeding 35% can control all decisions made by company. It doesn’t take 51%.

If you think this is unimportant, you might be a shill.

Look at ownership of Youtube/Google/Alphabet — China. And, nothing happens in a Chinese-owned company that isn’t specifically approved by the CCP. Any “facts” coming from this trail of companies originates from the CCP.

It is always important to follow the money. Even in a communist-controlled economy. That is the trail of “breadcrumbs” that gets you back to a possible enemy. And, if you don’t think the CCP is an enemy of civilization, you are the enemy, too.

[dfwgator]

One day China is going to pull all the money out, they are in the process of getting themselves prepared for that day.

[Fiji Hill]

Vanguard I, December 6, 1957

[Zionist Conspirator]

“In other words, these two investment companies, Vanguard and BlackRock hold a monopoly in all industries in the world and they, in turn, are owned by the richest families in the world, some of whom are royalty and who have been very rich since before the Industrial Revolution.”

Once again, evidence that the old, traditional elites are the true powers behind Leftism. Was Marx working for Metternich???

[Openurmind]

Absolutely...

[Eagles6]

Bttt

[qwerty1234]

>>If you think this is unimportant, you might be a shill.

Except Vanguard DOESN’T own those shares, so they CAN’T vote them...if you think that is unimportant point, then you are probably being deliberately stupid.

[Organic Panic]

And the PCR test company that was recalled is founded by a man educated in Wuhan and has a PHD in Marketing.

Nothing to see here.

[mountainfolk]

BlackRock and Vanguard are the subject of recent writeups about how they are buying massive quantities of residential real estate for subsequent rental purposes.

[tired&retired]

https://www.investopedia.com › basics
Proxy Voting Gives Fund Shareholders a Say
At shareholder meetings, investors with common shares (or mutual fund units) ... Such influence is generally held only by powerful institutional investors, ...
https://www.investopedia.com › terms
Voting Shares Definition - Investopedia
These shares are held by company insiders and carry supervoting privileges—each Google Class B share counts as 10 votes.1.
People also ask
How do shareholders vote their shares?
Who votes proxies for mutual funds?
Generally, the Investment Stewardship team is responsible for administering proxy votes on behalf of Vanguard’s internally managed funds and ETFs. In 2019, the boards of trustees of Vanguard’s externally managed funds delegated full proxy voting responsibilities to those funds’ external managers.

https://about.vanguard.com › how-o...

How our funds voted | Vanguard - About Vanguard

[tired&retired]

Vanguard’s Investment Stewardship team plays various roles in the proxy voting process for Vanguard funds across the globe. Generally, the Investment Stewardship team is responsible for administering proxy votes on behalf of Vanguard’s internally managed funds and ETFs. In 2019, the boards of trustees of Vanguard’s externally managed funds delegated full proxy voting responsibilities to those funds’ external managers.

[tired&retired]

Facebook Ownership

Vanguard Group Inc.

Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies with about 425 low-cost traditional funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) The firm has about $6.2 trillion in global assets under management (AUM). The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) is one of the company’s largest ETFs with about $130 billion in AUM. Vanguard’s funds hold approximately 184.0 million shares of Facebook with a combined market value of about $37.7 billion.

BlackRock Inc.

BlackRock is one of the world’s leading asset and investment management firms with approximately $6.47 trillion in AUM. The firm offers a wide range of mutual funds, iShares ETFs and closed-end funds. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) is among one of BlackRock’s largest ETFs with approximately $180.3 billion in AUM. BlackRock’s funds hold about 158.2 million shares of Facebook with a combined market value of $32.3 billion.

[tired&retired]

Mercola was named public enemy #1 which tells me he was over the target.

[No.6]

Elsewhere I’ve learned today Vanguard is using ‘its’ (our!) votes influentially:

https://about.vanguard.com/investment-stewardship/how-our-funds-voted/

Not good.