How Index "Gaming" Around S&P Additions Could Hurt Passive Investors -- and Smart Ways to Defend Your Portfolio
Key Points
Index additions can briefly inflate stock prices, creating risks for buy-and-hold S&P 500 investors.
Investors can blunt these distortions using equal-weight ETFs, stricter indexes, or customized accounts.
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Index reconstitutions can distort prices, creating risks for passive S&P investors when hot new names join at stretched valuations. Learn how equal-weight funds, stricter indexes, and customized accounts may help manage these pressures in the video below.
*This video was published on May 29, 2026.
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