For many years, I wonder: “Who actually controls the world?”

In response, there is usually that it is the Elite or “the top 5%”.

Who is the elite? Who are the top 5%?

Before answering this question and give you the answer on how you can control the world too let us look first at the background why finally an answer is possible.

A groundbreaking study by James B. Glattfelder researched the topic complexity.

How an interconnected system — say, a swarm of birds — is more than the sum of its parts.

And complexity theory can actually say a lot about how the economy works. James B. Smooth fields presented that the concentration of power is in the hands of the few.

He has developed a structural analysis to illustrate the global economy network. But he has 13 million data analysed and evaluated by software.

In the following Ted Talk James B. Glattfelder gives you the answer to the question “Who controls the world?”. The Swiss physicist explains the economy from the perspective of science. How does the network of the economy works? Who controls the corporations and the money? (scroll to the end of this post to get the answer right now)

The Link to the TED Talk on Youtube.

From minute 6:45 it gets interesting: How does the system of ownership of the investors in these companies work?

The following observation: There are only 43,000 global companies at the top of the economic pyramid.

0.123% of the owners control about 80% of these companies.

50 corporations control the global prosperity, representing about 40% of the world economy.

Very nice and interesting. But how can you also have a piece of the pie of controlling the world?

The answer is below:

So it’s a handful of companies that control the world. Very exciting, since on the one slide in the presentation, the top companies are shown by the mutual shareholding control the world in a highly concentrated network.

The study identified the first 737 top-holders. The core was made

up of 1,300 companies.

147 of these were also in the top 737 and control about 40%. 0.123% of the owners control about 80% of these companies. 147 companies have been so identified.

The following gives you the Top 50 of the 147 companies.

The TOP 50 Companies

1. Barclays plc

2. Capital Group Companies Inc

3. FMR Corporation

4. AXA

5. State Street Corporation

6. JP Morgan Chase & Co

7. Legal & General Group plc

8. Vanguard Group Inc

9. UBS AG

10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc

11. Wellington Management Co LLP

12. Deutsche Bank AG

13. Franklin Resources Inc

14. Credit Suisse Group

15. Walton Enterprises LLC

16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp

17. Natixis

18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc

19. T Rowe Price Group Inc

20. Legg Mason Inc

21. Morgan Stanley

22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc

23. Northern Trust Corporation

24. Société Générale

25. Bank of America Corporation

26. Lloyds TSB Group plc

27. Invesco plc

28. Allianz SE

29. TIAA

30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company

31. Aviva plc

32. Schroders plc

33. Dodge & Cox

34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc

35. Sun Life Financial Inc

36. Standard Life plc

37. CNCE

38. Nomura Holdings Inc

39. The Depository Trust Company

40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance

41. ING Groep NV

42. Brandes Investment Partners LP

43. Unicredito Italiano SPA

44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan

45. Vereniging Aegon

46. BNP Paribas

47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc

48. Resona Holdings Inc

49. Capital Group International Inc

50. China Petrochemical Group Company

4 Main Players

There are 4 that are the main players which can be read in this Forbes article
“The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything”.

How can you actually be part of it right now?

You can be a part of it by investing in those companies.

Maybe it makes sense for you, buying a few long-term equity shares of the listed
companies to participate primarily to the success of these companies by dividend payments.

Inform yourself at your bank or your broker and maybe invest in these companies
which means you get a piece of the pie, too.

Voilà! That's it!

Kind regards and have a wonderful day,

Pawel M. Konefal

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