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edd asked in Business & FinanceInvesting · 5 months ago

What does a holding company hold? If stocks, then when you invest in a subsidiary of it, are you technically investing in the holding? ?

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    5 months ago
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    The point of it is to store money and then lease the money to a huge mess of smaller subsidiaries and if they go bust, creditors can't petition the holding company because they only did business with the subsidiary. The holding company is a separate entity.

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