The most popular index funds are weighted by market cap: the bigger the company, the more stock in it the fund holds. Or in other words, the holdings are sort of “normalized” with respect to the fraction of the total market each company represents, such that the performance of the fund matches the performance of the market.
There’s no real agenda there.
(There are other sorts of index funds, such as “equal weight” funds that invest the same amount in every company in the index, but if you think about it, that’s weird because it’s basically skewing its investing to the smallest companies.)
Maybe it’s an integrity thing? Maybe he felt like having a financial interest in different companies might bias him in an unethical way?
I feel like Index funds kinda removes that aspect.
It’s probably as close as you can get when investing. That’s what Harris does. Still, no investments definitely eliminates any doubt.
Index funds are often heavily weighted to certain companies though.
The most popular index funds are weighted by market cap: the bigger the company, the more stock in it the fund holds. Or in other words, the holdings are sort of “normalized” with respect to the fraction of the total market each company represents, such that the performance of the fund matches the performance of the market.
There’s no real agenda there.
(There are other sorts of index funds, such as “equal weight” funds that invest the same amount in every company in the index, but if you think about it, that’s weird because it’s basically skewing its investing to the smallest companies.)
cough
blackrock
cough