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Feb 2025
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Talking Heads – Watch out, concentration...

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Recent stock market movements have focused attention on the risks of over allocating to an equity index dominated a small group of companies in the same sector. This is currently the case with the preponderance of 10 (tech) behemoths in the US S&P500. Raul Leote de Carvalho, Deputy Head of the Quant Research Group, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris put this concentration into context. They conclude that as long as market valuations rise in synch with profitability, the companies’ index dominance can be justified, but there's no margin for error. Raul suggests two ways of managing the related risk of high volatility.


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