Long-term investors who follow one simple piece of advice have tended to benefit from it: as the market twists and turns, do nothing. But the S&P 500 of today, and the bull market of the past decade, are unique in some ways, led by a concentration at the top in a handful of tech stocks that has few historical precedents. One "something" that investors have been advised by experts to consider is a move into equal-weight S&P 500 funds to mitigate the risk of having such a high level of exposure to one trade. Well, that didn't exactly work out the way it was supposed to in 2026. What did investors who adopted the equal-weight approach get? To date, another year trailing the standard market-weight S&P 500 in performance.
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