Imagine waking up one day and realizing you had a hidden asset â something you could turn into actual cash. Itâs not your house, your car, or a dividend. But according to The Wall Street Journal, a surprisingly large number of U.S. families have it. Amazingly, you can turn it into cash more than once. [â¦] You're receiving this email as part of your subscription to Crowdability. [Unsubscribe here](. [Crowdability Editorial]( [feature] WSJ: You Might Own This âHiddenâ Asset â Turn it into Cash Matthew Milner Imagine waking up one day and realizing you had a hidden asset â something you could turn into actual cash. Itâs not your house, your car, or a dividend. But according to TheWall Street Journal, a surprisingly large number of U.S. families have it. Amazingly, you can turn it into cash more than once. In fact, you can do it every year â like an annual âbonusâ payment. Itâs easy to do, and it might even increase your hidden assetâs value. Curious if this asset is hiding in your portfolio right now? Letâs take a look. The Magic Kingdom Loses its Magic To set the stage here, letâs look at something thatâs been in the news lately: An activist investor named Nelson Peltz is angry about the stock performance of Disney (DIS). Disney stock is down about 66% from its 2021 high. Peltz has been shouting from the rooftops that he can turn things around. But to do so, heâll need seats on Disneyâs corporate board. Getting seats on the board requires a vote of all Disney shareholders. For a typical company, most of those shareholders would be big institutions like mutual funds. But Disney isnât a typical company⦠The Power of Individual Investors As The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year, individual investors like you own more than 600 million shares of Disney stock. Thatâs about one-third of Disney's 1.8 billion shares. Since each share represents a vote at the annual shareholders meeting, that gives ordinary investors a lot of power. The thing is, most individual investors donât vote. According to Broadridge Financial Solutions, only about 30% of shares held by individual investors are used to vote. As Andrew Shapiro, the managing member of activist fund Lawndale Capital Management, explains, âMany retail investors throw their votes away because they donât want to read the proxy or because they feel their votes donât matter.â But for Nelson Peltz to win his fight, he needs the votes from your shares. In fact, he needs them so much, heâs willing to pay you for them! (Long story, but yes, this is perfectly legal.) And thatâs where the âhiddenâ asset we mentioned earlier comes back into the picture⦠Introducing: Shareholder Vote Exchange Recently, a new website was created. Itâs called Shareholder Vote Exchange (SVE). Essentially, SVE helps investors like you generate income from your stocks. The way it does that is by helping you sell your shareholder voting rights. As noted above, many individual investors never vote their shares. But other investors â for example, Nelson Peltz â may see cash value in these rights, especially if they can be used for something like gaining board seats. Historically, individuals have never had a place to sell their voting rights. And investors like Peltz have never had a place to buy them. But with SVE, now they do. How It Works (Itâs Like an Annual Bonus Payment) With SVE, investors like you use your shares to generate extra income. Whenever a company whose stock you own holds a shareholdersâ meeting, you can sell your votes on SVE. Think of it like an annual bonus payment. SVE will pool your votes with the votes of other investors. The more votes it can gather, the more valuable each vote becomes. For example, if it could sell Peltz, say, 10% of the total vote, that would be very valuable to him, and heâd likely be willing to pay up for it. But if it could only sell him 1% of the total vote, that would be much less valuable. So, how much are your votes worth? Research and real-world data suggest theyâre worth an annual yield of anywhere from .1% to more than 5%. A quick example: SVE recently held a vote auction for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Uranium Energy Corporation (UEC). 2,100 votes were sold for a total of $235. Thatâs $0.11 per vote. Given that UECâs stock was trading for $3.29 on the meeting date, that implies a âvote yieldâ of 3.34%. Turn Your Hidden Asset into Cash Today As of late January 2024, about 200,000 proxy votes had been traded on SVE. But the companyâs founder expects volume to grow with the 2024 proxy season. Eager to put your shares to work so you can turn your hidden asset into cash? [You can learn more on SVEâs website and register for free here »]( Happy Investing, Please note: Crowdability has no relationship with any of the startups or investment platforms we write about. We're an independent provider of education and research on startups and alternative investments. Best Regards,
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