A handful of institutional investors bought large positions in former President Donald Trump’s media company in the second quarter ahead of the company’s inclusion in two Russell indexes, regulatory filings released on Wednesday showed.

Among the biggest purchasers of shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O), opens new tab, the parent company of the Truth Social platform, were asset managers Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock, which are known for their passive investing businesses. Those include exchange traded funds that buy shares of companies included in a wide range of indexes that they track.

Vanguard Group initiated a new position with the purchase of nearly 2.9 million shares of Trump Media, with a market value of approximately $94.3 million at the end of the quarter, the filings showed. BlackRock initiated a new position with the purchase of nearly 2.2 million shares, while State Street initiated a new position with just over 440,000 shares.

  • FuglyDuck
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    04 months ago

    they own SCROTUS, so, like… they’re not afraid.

    also, if that happens everyone else in the market would tank it as well. hedgefunds have been doing economic terrorism for a long time “too big to fail” is economic terrorism.

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      14 months ago

      Good thing the president’s fucking above the law now, eh SCROTUS?

      • @[email protected]
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        4 months ago

        It’s also the enforcement arm of the government. If they just simply enforced the laws on the books they could probably arrest a bunch of people for the crimes they get away with daily. Nothing is special about bankers or fund managers, they can be replaced by other bankers or managers.