[Wally_Kalbacken]

But of course if the mutual funds represent hundreds of thousands of indivudual fund owners, and if the corporations themselves have hundereds of thousands of owners of their shares...

[mad_as_he$$]

The word is “control” not ownership. I always make more money controlling something rather than owning it.

[decimon]

But of course if the mutual funds represent hundreds of thousands of indivudual fund owners...

It's the investment companies that vote those shares.