Discover how price-weighted indexes calculate averages from stock prices, impacting market trends with more influence from ...

Investing against the crowd is not easy. Contrarian investors often make bold bets that may take time—sometimes years or longer—before paying off. Contrarian investing comes in many different shapes.

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Cap-weighted funds focus on large companies, impacting fund performance and risk. These funds often feature lower expense ratios due to minimal trading requirements. Consider your investment strategy ...

Foryou13 from Getty Images Pro and utah778 from Getty Images The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) has a concentration problem that keeps getting worse. The top 10 holdings in a cap-weighted S&P ...

Invesco S&P 100 Equal Weight ETF (EQWL) returned 281% over the past decade versus iShares S&P 100 Index Fund (OEF) at 334%. EQWL is up 1.5% year-to-date while OEF is down 2.9%. Apple (AAPL), Microsoft ...

Equal-weight structures fix the concentration risk of cap-weighted indexes by preventing a handful of mega-cap technology names from driving returns, with RSP, EQL, and EQWL each taking different ...

A smart beta exchange traded fund, the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares (QQQE) debuted on 03/21/2012, and offers broad exposure to the Style Box - Large Cap Growth category of the ...