If the stocks are purchased by second parties, she may have no knowledge of the actual stocks that the second parties hold in her name, even if they are on a disclosure that she likely looked at before signing, but how does a person pick out maybe ten stocks from among thousands?
Hillary and Bill Clinton isn't nearly as rich as Pelosi and her husband, but people here on DU were hitting Hillary about owning stock in some mining companies and stock in a company that had something to do with the Keystone Pipeline. It wasn't that Hillary set out to own those stocks, her and her husband likely signed an agreement with a second party investment advisor, with a targeted annual return and some conditions like no stocks of gunmakers, cigarette makers or companies that have a record of profiting from child or slave labor. But even the most thorough ethical investors have gotten tripped up by investing in companies that become public albatrosses around their necks. Tom Steyer's funds invested in companies that polluted at one time, he may not have known about the full extent of the companies activities until they became an issue, and he is a sophisticated financier.
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