The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) has a concentration problem that keeps getting worse. The top 10 holdings in a cap-weighted S&P 500 fund now represent a historically outsized share of…
Most investors who want broad U.S. large-cap exposure default to an S&P 500 fund without asking whether they actually want all 500 companies, or just the ones doing most of the work.…
The S&P 500 you own through a standard index fund is not as diversified as it looks. The cap-weighted version of the index hands roughly a third of your money to a…
Cap-weighted index funds have a structural quirk that most investors overlook: the more a stock’s price rises, the more of your money gets automatically funneled into it. With NVIDIA, Apple, and Microsoft…
The S&P 500 has a concentration problem. At the start of 2026, the top seven stocks account for roughly a third of the market-cap weighted index, leaving investors heavily exposed to a…
