Mutual funds that invest in Diebold

[garybeck]

listed in order of amount of ownership. source is
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp?Symbol=DBD

looks like we're going to be messing with the big boys. I believe Vanguard is one of the largest mutual funds there is.

Fidelity Management & Research Co
First Manhattan Capital Management
Artisan Partners
T Rowe Price Associates
Barclays Global Investors
Aim Capital Management
Franklin Advisers
Pioneer Investments (boston)
Baincapital Inc
Us Trust Corp /ny
Fifth Third Bank
State Street Global Advisors
Alliance Capital Management
Vanguard Group
Banc One Investment Advisors

[bush_is_wacko]

1. I have no investments with any of these funds, thank goodness!

Vanguard and T. Rowe Price, Alliance are big ones, but I don't recognize any of the others. Is Banc One Investment the same as Bank One? Does Us Trust Corp have anything to do with US Banks? Aim sounds familiar too, but am drawing a blank. Is First Manhattan Capital connected to credit cards?

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. I have no money to invest at all, thank badness!

:(

[garybeck]

3. actually it would be good if you did, because then you could divest

and make a statement. the divestment project is going to move mountains.

[trudyco]

4. What's the plan? Pressure the MF to back out of Diebold unless

they agree to opensource standards?

trudyco

[garybeck]

5. you'll be hearing more about this soon

I'm not sure of the details but I know some good folks are working on this. Personally I would just say divest from Diebold, period. It's too late for them to agree to open source, or paper or whatever. They need to be out of the voting machine business.

just imagine, if thousands of people at once started calling up their investment brokers and saying that they want out of any mutual funds that includes Diebold.