Ballmer also gets a passive minority stake in the huge upside ahead with Alibaba Group (with direct assurances from his partner Ma that no funny business goes on).
Robert Hartwig at the Insurance Information Institute in New York thinks that too much would be at stake for European governments to remain passive were one of their large insurers or reinsurers to go bust.
During that period of time, we imagine that the taxpayers want us to be looking after their money, and so as we indicated, there will be people here watching over that investment, but as I indicated, in the nature of passive shareholders similar to Fidelity or some other large investment firm that has a large stake in a company.