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Another confounding factor... Cross Holdings
! In a cross holding structure, the largest stockholder in a company can be
another company. In some cases, companies can hold stock in each other.
! Cross holding structures make it more difficult for stockholders in any of the
companies involved to
- decipher what is going on in each of the individual companies
- decide which management to blame or reward
- change managers even if they can figure out who to blame.
Deutsche is the largest stockholder in Daimler Chrysler, the German automobile
company, and Allianz, the German insurance company, is the largest stockholder
in Deutsche.
