RE: unless you request and receive the physical stock certificates, your shares are held in the name of your brokerage firm {which is rarely done anymore} . In any event that is a correct statement.
Which means the next question will be how does DIP’s work when you hold physical stock then? I know, I know never mind.
Buy the real deal F&*@ paper. Stocks can go up and down. ETF's owned by the very people were fighting. SLV I hear is run by JPM? LOL PSLV I don't trust this one either. I'll keep stacking.