The biggest pension funds also held sizable stakes in most major companies, so they could not easily register dissatisfaction by trading in and out of companies.
Executives at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, which once held sizable stakes in Ping An and served as lead underwriters for the Hong Kong public offering, also said they were never told of the holdings.
Much of the challenge is borne of the general scarcity of salmon in many river systems that once held sizable runs and the number of anglers besieging the fish with colorfully named flies in the streams where returns are more stable.
He now holds sizable sleeper value as a TE2 and should be targeted in the late rounds.
Berkshire often does that, and currently holds sizable stakes in companies as diverse as I.B.M. and Coca-Cola.
Research universities like Penn, the California Institute of Technology, Duke, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia assign their investment rights to it, and hold sizable ownership stakes in the fund.
Mr. Pigott, who called Citadel's Hewlett-Packard holding "sizable," tended to agree with Mr. Hewlett that the deal looks like a risky bet.
Apple also holds sizable investments in foreign countries' debt, commercial paper-based and mortgage-backed securities, all controlled by its own fund management group, Braeburn.
It has attracted nearly all the global oil and gas giants, with Eni of Italy as the operator, and Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, TotalFinaElf, ConocoPhillips and Inpex all holding sizable stakes.
A number of hedge funds, including Paul Singer's Elliott Management, hold sizable minority stakes in Kabel Deutschland, Germany's largest cable company, setting up a battle over whether Vodafone will have to increase its offer to seal the deal.
The old structure, with more recent additions designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, holds sizable displays of African and pre-Columbian art in halls that flank much smaller displays of works from China, Japan, India and Indonesia.
