Owning the Market Isn’t As Easy as it Sounds

By: ETFdb
When most investors think of the U.S. equity market, the S&P 500 is likely what first comes to mind. The legendary benchmark has long been used as a barometer of the broad market, as it represents approximately 80% of available market capitalization. As such, many believe owning the S&P 500 via an ETF is a way for investors to essentially “own the market” [see also 7 Charts to Put the ETF Industry in Perspective]. There is, however, some fault to that statement, as the entire U.S. equity market is not represented. Besides the S&P 500, investors have turned to other popular benchmarks to try and capture the market, including the NYSE Composite, Russell 3000, and NASDAQ Composite indexes. In this piece, we take a close look at nine of the “broadest” U.S. indexes, highlighting each index’s composition, biases, and depth: Index ETF # of Components Top 3 Holdings Top Sector Allocations S&P […] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: Unit Investment Trusts (UIT): An Introduction 101 #ETFFunFacts The Best and Worst All-ETF Portfolios of 2013 5 Tweets That Shook the ETF World Daily ETF Roundup: Stocks Close Mixed, IEO And IGV Rise
When most investors think of the U.S. equity market, the S&P 500 is likely what first comes to mind. The legendary benchmark has long been used as a barometer of the broad market, as it represents approximately 80% of available market capitalization. As such, many believe owning the S&P 500 via an ETF is a way for investors to essentially “own the market” [see also 7 Charts to Put the ETF Industry in Perspective]. There is, however, some fault to that statement, as the entire U.S. equity market is not represented. Besides the S&P 500, investors have turned to other popular benchmarks to try and capture the market, including the NYSE Composite, Russell 3000, and NASDAQ Composite indexes. In this piece, we take a close look at nine of the “broadest” U.S. indexes, highlighting each index’s composition, biases, and depth: Index ETF # of Components Top 3 Holdings Top Sector Allocations S&P […]

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