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Unless weighting is done by business fundamentals, it still enables misallocation of capital. Many curated indexes and decisions are based on market cap, liquidity, public float, sector classification - all hardly fundamental.


> Unless weighting is done by business fundamentals, it still enables misallocation of capital.

Is it your assertion that without index funds this would be occurring? We just saw deliberate decisions to buy companies like TSLA and GME that stronly argue against that.




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