Right? I might be misunderstanding something about investing, but my presumption was that if you invest in a company, you help it do more of what it does. Please do correct me if I’m wrong.
There’s no good evidence that investing in a publicly traded company helps it at all. You are buying shares from other shareholders, not from the company itself, and the company does not care who hold’s its shares. Investing in a venture capital deal is a different story. It would definitely not be advisable for a charity to provide VC funding for a company opposed to it’s charitable mission because they could plausibly expand the total available funding for the company.
Right? I might be misunderstanding something about investing, but my presumption was that if you invest in a company, you help it do more of what it does. Please do correct me if I’m wrong.
There’s no good evidence that investing in a publicly traded company helps it at all. You are buying shares from other shareholders, not from the company itself, and the company does not care who hold’s its shares. Investing in a venture capital deal is a different story. It would definitely not be advisable for a charity to provide VC funding for a company opposed to it’s charitable mission because they could plausibly expand the total available funding for the company.