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Re:The Toyota Way by marcosdumay on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:45AM (#20286087)
Active shareholders are happy to see their stock value rise to unsustainable levels and then selling them to the next suckers.

Passive shareholders, well, don't participate on decision making.

Expect this feature to get worse with increased share of index funds. But not by much, because most people never were active anyway.

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Re:The Toyota Way by icebraining on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:59PM (#20288052)
> Passive shareholders, well, don't participate on decision making.

That's not true, fund managers vote on behalf of those shareholders, and not always go along with the board's position. See for example Vanguard's voting record: https://about.vanguard.com/investment-stewardship/how-our-fu...

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Re:The Toyota Way by mcguire on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:15PM (#20286989)
"Expect this feature to get worse with increased share of index funds."

How so? Index funds buy when the shares are high and sell when they're low.

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