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January 15, 2021 | Speculative Blank Check Companies Create Billions of Paper Profits
Hilliard MacBeth Author of When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash
A $12.5 million investment in clean energy earned an “accidental” profit of $200 million from a blank-check company. Here is how that works.
Blank-check companies SPACs or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies are proliferating, a strong signal that this market has gone wild.
Blank-check vehicles are shell companies used to take a private company public while bypassing the normal requirements for a stock market listing. Along the way many people gain substantial riches, sometimes without taking any risk.
Even institutional investors, like AIMCO and the Health Care of Ontario Pension Plan, are getting involved in this hot market. One of the largest funds to participate is Saudi Arabia’s $300 billion Public Investment Fund.