It just seems so obvious that all of these companies are going to unwind and yet I don't know how to avoid being damaged by this in my retirement funds in the S&P 500.
Hopefully all of this happens before Open AI can be flogged to the public in an IPO large enough to get into the S&P 500 -- in which OpenAI then goes to zero
if it's a corporate 401k you can move it to something very conservative and probably protect yourself from the worst of it. I've built up a decent college fund for my boys in a standard issue vanguard brokerage account and one of their SP500 index fund. I'm going to go mostly to cash on Jan1 and wait a year and see what happens. I need that money in 2 years (my oldest will be starting college then) so I don't have a lot of time to recover from a full on crash.
If you aren’t close to retirement you don’t worry about damage, and if you are close to retirement your funds are hopefully already stuffed into munch more conservative funds.
Long term investment strategy assumes and welcomes volatility to maximize returns.
Continuous investment in a 401k means that every bubble burst lowers your cost basis (buying stocks at a “discount” post-burst, lowering your average price paid).
Hopefully all of this happens before Open AI can be flogged to the public in an IPO large enough to get into the S&P 500 -- in which OpenAI then goes to zero