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Understanding the weight of stocks in S&P 500 indexes
What's the problem of being equal here?
Suppose you created your own index of 5 equally-weighted stocks (A, B, C, D, and E) and wanted to create a fund that tracks that index. Suppose also for ...
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Understanding the weight of stocks in S&P 500 indexes
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/090414/sp-500-index-you-need-know.asp says:
The S&P 500 is calculated by adding each company's float-adjusted market capitalization.
This seems to ...
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How does mutual funds confiscate the stock dividends?
"Confiscate" is a loaded word. Mutual funds have various management costs, but they want to make these seem as low as possible. So they hide fees in other ways, such as keeping (some or ...
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