Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC

Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by exabrial on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:28PM (#48359941)

>The plan is to rapidly drive these prices up in the first 15 days, get the companies listed in the NASDAQ so funds are forced to purchase them at higher prices, then leave retirement accounts holding the bag.

Dumb question: why couldn't retirement accounts simply not purchase these?

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by QuotedForTruth on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:32PM (#48359996)

These funds don’t invest actively (picking individual stocks). Instead they invest in indexes that track larger portions of the market. So they’ll automatically buy once the company is listed on the NASDAQ.

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by Avicebron on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:42PM (#48360129)

Why do I imagine that no one whose retirement account is about to get smoked is in place to make decisions about whether or not this is a good investment

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by delecti on Monday June 01, 2026 @06:20PM (#48363387)

The point of that kind of account is that most people aren't in a place to make decisions about what is or isn't a good investment.

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Re:Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC by moregrist on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:39PM (#48360085)

Seems like there should be a market for a no-Elon/OpenAI/Anthropic ETF out there.

Or one that just imposes a reasonable waiting period on adding newly-IPO’d listings.

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