CUSIP-Social Security Nexus

[psholtz]

This is proof of nothing, but it's interesting to find the following analogy made on the CUSIP Web site:

Each and every share of an issuer's stock bears a 9-character identifier (CUSIP number) that operates to identify a security in the same manner that a social security number identifies an individual throughout their lifetime.

https://www.cusip.com/static/html/cu...ification.html

There is in fact a CUSIP-style serial number on the back of my Social Security card, in red lettering. I took that number to a stock broker at Merrill Lynch (this was last sumer) and asked him if he had any bonds available under that number (not telling him that it came from my SS card).

He has yes in fact there were, and mentioned something about gold indexes and that there were 15 outstanding bonds, or some such thing (I can't quite parse the financial argo he was using). I asked him to provide me w/ all the information he had on these bonds, which he never did. He was very evasive on this subject the several times I've tried to bring it up subsequently.

[David Merrill]

Check into CUSIP itself as a search object.

You will come across search services that compete by offering a free week trial. Grab that offer and run your searches.

Please post the results.



Regards,

David Merrill.

[fulltitle]

Without Prejudice.
The SSN is really just an account number. The number on the back would be more like a series number of the actual security or the bond number. I could be mistaken in my memory but it might be stored in the SSA comptuer under "Control Number". You could go into SSA office and ask for a control number.

It may however possible that the SSN could become teh basis a number for a security simply because the number becomes adopted out of convenience in a particular transaction.