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The Mega Cap Growth Market
If you’re an investor in an S&P 500 or related index fund, you’ve had a pretty good 18 months. Ignoring a couple of quick, scary drops, you’ve had a pretty good 15 years.
The largest companies have become behemoths who
If you’re an investor in an S&P 500 or related index fund, you’ve had a pretty good 18 months. Ignoring a couple of quick, scary drops, you’ve had a pretty good 15 years.
The largest companies have become behemoths who
The S&P 500 attracts all of the headlines. This index is comprised of the 500 largest US based corporations and is weighted by the market capitalization. As of the end of the quarter the top 10 stocks represented 32% of the S&P 500.
Each year many investors will take a look at their investment performance and reassess how and where they are invested. Often times they make the decision to sell their lowest performers to invest more in their best performers. This can be a big mistake. After
The way our brains are programmed we tend to believe what has happened in the recent past is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. This is called “recency” bias.
This can be especially dangerous for investors as they may forget what history tells us about
It’s been a wild few years for investors in the stock market. We’ve seen big swings from fear (COVID outbreak in 2020 and interest rate hikes in 2022) to greed (‘meme’ stock idiocy in 2021 and ‘AI’ fueled euphoria in 2023). Throughout market history these cycles