Passive investing turned everyone into a tech investor without anyone asking permission. That’s the uncomfortable reality your pension statement won’t spell out. Concentration risk isn’t theoretical — it’s sitting inside the funds you forgot you owned, quietly indexed to the same seven companies the ECB just flagged as the core of a potential AI Infrastructure financial stability problem.

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    So, the US Epstein class with the mag7 scammers and their fascist puppet leader have stolen Europe’s pension funds. Well, that will teach them once and for all not to listen to, or trust any Capitalists…

    …hm, no, they won’t reject their dumb religion, and will continue to be US vassals for ever, and as long as the local rich ps*chos feels relative rich to everyone else, they’ll sell out their country and countrymen again if needed. Besides, the Rich-man’s for profit media bubble will explain to everyone that “it was Russia and Putin!!”, or oc “it was China !!” - we know the propaganda/narrative control by heart now.

    So tough luck. To everyone loosing their pension to the US fascists deep state, and dies poor and angry: say loud and proud; “Thank you Capitalist believers !!”

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    Euro area households, which are increasingly channelling funds into low-cost ETFs, have around €440 billion of exposures to US technology equities without necessarily being aware of the associated concentration risk

    I think they’re well aware of the risk and that’s something they’re willing to gamble with

    There is plenty of opportunity for them to invest in safer less risky investments

    There is also plenty of people who are investing and will continue to invest through any 2008 financial crisis or dot com bubble and will simply pick up cheap stocks

    The reality is that if Europe wants less Europeans exposed to the Mag 7 it needs to make its own stock markets more attractive, which as per usual it is taking its sweet time with

    Still work do to on capital markets union, German minister says

    https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/still-capital-markets-union-german-151037510.html

    I’m also not sure why people are so hyped up on a potential correction, there’s been like 3 in my life time (asian financial crisis, dot com bubble and 2008 financial crisis), it’s not like we won’t come out the other side and keep building