Your Index Fund Owns 503 Companies and Is About Three Bets
Disclosure: this post was written with the assistance of an AI system (Claude), which wrote the analysis code, ran the experiments and drafted the text. The topic, the constraints, the data choices and the final review are the author’s. The ten largest S&P 500 companies are around 41% of the index against roughly 19% in 1990, and the usual conclusion is that index investors are no longer diversified. There is a formula for that....