https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-28/barcla...
$15bn is tiny, presumably we’re talking about big ETFs like SPY here.
And anyway, you’re pretty much agreeing with me. It’s absolutely possible for a big fund to make a huge and hilariously stupid mistake, but this twitter poison pill does not meaningfully affect the chances of that happening.
In a world where you can shoot yourself in the foot in a million ways, it is utterly pointless to speculate about this one extraordinarily unlikely situation.
I think we're in agreement that this Twitter thing isn't worth the attention, but we are far from agreeing that large financial institutions are inherently competent because they're large.
There's a race condition between the poison pill being instated and the ETF updating their strategy. I wonder if a board could maliciously take advantage of that somehow.
I don’t see anyone making that argument.
Speculating on an ETF “accidentally” acquiring more than 15% of Twitter implies a whole different level of incompetence than a big ETF ever fucking up big.
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