As equity market concentration hits historic levels, investors are actively seeking alternative index weighting strategies to mitigate idiosyncratic risk. For decades, the default option to escape the confines of market-capitalization concentration was to seek refuge in equal-weight strategies. By assigning a fixed, uniform weight to every index constituent, an equal-weight strategy decouples a company’s portfolio [...]

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