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Old 12-23-2014, 12:27 PM   #1
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US stock sector weighting

I've been looking at my sector weighting in U.S. stocks with personalcapital.
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They recommend that you balance between all us sectors, compared with my weights which are closer to S&P 500 weighting.

I have a mix of mutual funds and individual stocks.

Do you guys look at sector weighting? What's your strategy?



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Old 12-23-2014, 12:35 PM   #2
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I have been buying IVV and IVW. I have a few older positions of QQQ and IWM. I may switch to all IVV as I go.

I think the S&P is the 'market', so I try to stay with that. Let the S&P figure out who stays and goes.

At Fidelity, IVV and IVW are $0 trade cost.
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Old 12-24-2014, 10:29 AM   #3
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I don't bother with sectors. If I did, I'd just stick with Total Stock Market and forget it.
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Same here. I don't mess with sectors. I let my mutual fund managers place those bets.

I invest according to asset class: US large, US mid-cap, US small, international, international small, REIT funds, and various type of bond funds and cash.
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Same here. I don't mess with sectors. I let my mutual fund managers place those bets.

I invest according to asset class: US large, US mid-cap, US small, international, international small, REIT funds, and various type of bond funds and cash.
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Old 12-26-2014, 10:05 PM   #6
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Presumably you are not invested in sector funds, but are in broadly-based funds, and the tool shows your sector exposure. In this scenario whether you are equally weighted in sectors or approximate the S&P 500 is probably a toss-up.

Since small and large US stocks are not well correlated, I prefer to have a large cap and a small cap fund. Or just go with one US fund and diversify in international.
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I've been looking at my sector weighting in U.S. stocks with personalcapital.
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They recommend that you balance between all us sectors, compared with my weights which are closer to S&P 500 weighting.

I have a mix of mutual funds and individual stocks.

Do you guys look at sector weighting? What's your strategy?



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My strategy is to use S&P as a reference point for my US holdings, severely under weighting Energy cuz I own a private oil and gas partnership.

Why does personalcapital recommend not weighting like S&P?


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