[OPE] The 2008 US Institutional Investment Report: Trends in Institutional Investor Assets and Equity Ownership of U.S. Corporations

U.S. Institutional Investors Boost Ownership of U.S. Corporations to New Highs

Institutional investors have, once again, topped their previous record ownership levels in the largest 1,000 U.S. corporations, the Conference Board reported last month when it released its "2008 Institutional Investment Report: Trends in Institutional Investor Assets and Equity Ownership of U.S. Corporations." Data on institutional investor ownership in the largest 1,000 U.S. corporations show that institutions have substantially and consistently increased their holdings from 1987 with an average of 46.6% of total stock to an average of 61.4% of total stock by 2000 and then rising to an unprecedented 76.4% of corporations by year-end 2007.

Concentration of ownership also tops all previous data when measured by the numbers of companies that have the largest institutional ownership. For example, in 1985 no company had institutional ownership of 60% or above, whereas by 2007 17 companies had institutional ownership of 60% or above, including six with institutional ownership of 70% or above. The equity market value of total institutional equity holdings increased from $571.2 billion in 1980 (or 37.2% of total U.S. equity markets) to $12.9 trillion (or 66.3% of total U.S. equity markets) in 2006. "This represents a historic all-time high in the amount of total U.S. equities controlled by these institutional investors," says Dr. Carolyn Kay Brancato, director of the Conference Board's Governance Center and author, together with Stephan Rabimov, of the report.

http://www.conference-board.org/publications/describe.cfm?id=1548

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