I encourage you to read up on «Modern Portfolio Theory» to learn more
about sector weighting.
Not exact matches
The aggregate
sector weights of energy and materials in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index have fallen from approximately 40 % around a decade ago to
about 14 % as of October 2017, with the
weights of information technology (IT) and consumer companies steadily increasing.
The portfolio is constructed from the bottom - up through fundamental analysis; which is to say the manager cares
about finding 15 - 50 great stocks with no particular interest in paralleling some indexes
sector, size or country
weightings.
The Australian share market is heavily
weighted toward the financial and mining
sectors, which account for
about 60 % of the ASX200 index.
The current debate
about optimal
sector and country
weights in a stock market index is still ongoing and there are many different rivaling approaches like equal
weighting, fundamental
weighting, GDP -
weighting or equal risk contribution or minimum variance.
If you paid for his short
sector it would be
about $ 1600 one way which is not exorbitant but considering you can get a cheap flight on Jetstar for
about $ 130 you would really need to
weight up the extra cost.
There is an increasing understanding among academia, economists and politicians
about the importance of early education and also that investment in the
sector does not align to the
weight of its importance.