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John Petrides Report: The S&P “5” cited by CNN

John Petrides Portfolio Manager · Feb 2020 · 1 min read

John Petrides published a commentary which was then featured in CNN Business: “The S&P 500 is really the S&P 5. Big tech dominates the Index”.

Summary

Investors continue to deploy their funds into Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and mutual funds that replicate the S&P 500 Index. However, doing so without understanding the current construct of the Index could be a mistake. The Technology sector has been a major driving force behind market returns over the past few years. Taking that one step further, a handful of stocks (think F.A.A.N.G. + MSFT) have pulled the market higher. This is in contrast to the perception of owning a S&P 500 Index for a diversified basket of securities across the entire U.S. economy. However, the reality shows that one simply owns a concentrated Tech portfolio where a few positions can have a sizable.

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