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by bombcar 1201 days ago
At the $100m amount people may confuse FDIC with SIPC - https://www.sipc.org

What SIPC does is similar to FDIC but it basically comes down to "If you buy stocks via Vanguard, Vanguard guarantees that those stocks actually exist and that if they fail you get them, and SIPC helps with that".