Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harris Trust & Savings...
...back in 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means showed in The Modern Corporation and Private Property that one can control a corporation by controlling even a minority of its shares. Hence it is no surprise that today's institutional investors-bank trust departments, pension funds, insurance companies and the like-exert great influence over companies and securities markets. Just how concentrated, however, is such influence? In 1975 Congress ordered the SEC and other regulatory bodies to supply it with new information on who owns what. Armies of lawyers descended upon the capital, arguing that such disclosure would...
...single institutional investor, had more than 10% controlled by five or fewer such investors, or had 10% owned by a single family. Among the top five stockholders in each of the 122 companies, twelve investors showed up more than half the time. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust was the No. 1 stockholder in 27 corporations. Morgan, Citibank, Chase Manhattan and other top investors also appeared as the principal shareholders in each other...
Morgan Guaranty Trust...
...Bankers Trust...