Who REALLY owns your investments?

LCDR Ben Bines — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:54:15 -0500

Google the DTC (Deposit Trust Company), DTCC (Deposit Trust Clearing Corporation), and "Cede & Co"....... what you'll learn will shock you!

The image above is from the 2014 Annual Report of DTCC. They made over $9 BILLION in investment income.....who's money are they investing?

Here is a link to get you started:
https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/why-your-brokerage-account-isnt-as-safe-as-you-think-it-is

IF YOU PARTICIPATE IN A SYSTEM YOU DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND, YOU WILL BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.

Why Your Brokerage Account Isn’t as Safe as You Think It Is

The financial system isn’t as safe as you think it is.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 17 at 2016 6:00 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:00:18 -0500

The government owns it all.

Response by LTC John Shaw made Jan 17 at 2016 9:41 PM

LTC John Shaw — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:41:32 -0500

The DTC has been around for some time as a common clearing house and an effective extension of the Fed. Not sure what the significance of this or what your intentions? Bottom line is the security is typically held on your behalf in 'street name' by the broker-dealer who is accountable to the custodian trust.

Interesting point, what do you hope to teach or point out?

Response by SFC David Davenport made Jan 18 at 2016 9:12 AM

SFC David Davenport — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:12:29 -0500

It is pretty common to use various transfer and holding agencies for investment and money moving activities. You can even physical visit some of these places as you travel. Some of them are in place as facilitators and others to make money off of people as they move funds around. If you really want we can get into the concept of money and who owns that money. I fail to see the intent of the post. If you are looking to drive change in how the financial markets work I don't think this is the right forum.

Response by SPC David S. made Jan 18 at 2016 12:15 PM

SPC David S. — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:15:39 -0500

99% of all stocks in the U.S.are legally owned by them so is the risk. You can't be suggesting using stock certificates instead of using the "street name" of the brokerage firm and letting them hold them in trust and trading them for you. That would be a grinding halt to trading as we know it and make the system rather cumbersome.

If we are going to go down the road of who owns what don't forget N.M. Rothschilds, William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James Stillman. There is nothing new to the how the 1% hold and "own" all the wealth.

If you have some grand plan in taking control of 23,000,000,000,000 dollars in assets I'm all ears.

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Jan 18 at 2016 11:49 PM

CSM Charles Hayden — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:49:26 -0500

LCDR Ben Bines When I played a slot machine (aka pokey) in an Australian Returned Servicemen's League in Caines, AU; I did not see 3 Cherrys for a winning 'pull', not understanding their game, I put my money in my pocket and LEFT!

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 24 at 2016 9:18 AM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:18:46 -0500

You own your investments. How you own them is a different question. If you own a stock in Ford, than your ownership and voting rights and profit sharing are equal to your percentage of ownership.
If you own real-estate; the question is; do you own it, or do you have a mortgage? if you have a mortgage, your ownership is equal to the percentage of the equity not owned by the bank. If you have a partnership, you own a share of the partnership until one of the partners departs, then the partnership dissolves.
If you own a mutual fund... there is a mutual fund manager that manages the investments, and while you have an investment, you don't really own the fund, because the money is yours, but not the fund.