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Nobody Is Diversified

Not Really

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Sep 30, 2025
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Investors should “diversify”. But in practice, very few investors or funds are meaningfully diversified. The reason is simple: the biggest stocks dominate. Even in a so-called “diversified” equity portfolio, a handful of mega-caps can wield an outsized influence over returns. To see this concretely, let’s look at how concentrated the major stock indices…

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