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Tech is Taking Over the Stock Market. Passive Investors, Beware.

July 31, 2024

In a guest column for Barron’s, Mike Clarfeld traces the increasing concentration of the S&P 500 Index and how this has diluted its diversification benefits, leading to increasing risk for passive strategies that follow market cap weighted benchmarks.

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  • Performance source: Internal. Benchmark source: Standard & Poor's.

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