In other words, if the biggest trees fall, everyone will feel the forest shake.
This isn’t merely a problem for investors in S&P 500 funds, which is limited to the biggest stocks in the market. The issue goes far beyond that. The entire U.S. stock market is now nondiversified, using the classic definition.
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