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* NY Fed Manufacturing Index fell sharply in May:
Equally weighting S&P 500 stocks has been a winning strategy for the past three decades-plus, writes Morningstar’s John Rekenthaler:
Since summer 1988, the equally weighted strategy has soared. As the next chart shows, a costless version of the equally weighted S&P 500 portfolio has thrashed the conventional index.
There are two possible reasons for the equally weighted portfolio’s improvement. One, the portfolio invests in smaller companies… Thus, if smaller companies have outgained their larger rivals over the past 25 years, the equally weighted portfolio should have benefited. The same principle applies to the performance of value stocks versus growth companies. Because ‘glamor stocks’ typically dominate the top positions of the conventional index, its portfolio tends to be more expensive, in aggregate, than the equally weighted index’s. The latter should therefore prosper when value stocks lead the way.