An equal weighted index removes
the large cap bias of a market cap weighted index (small caps make up a larger part of the fund) along with the flawed rebalancing rules (it buys low and sells high).
In general, for a fund with
a large cap bias, a value above 70 is desirable.
Not exact matches
Both the GICS and ICB are
biased toward
large -
cap stocks.
GURU also tends to have a
large -
cap bias (though smaller than IBLN), but it also holds its share of foreign stocks — including China's Baidu (BIDU) and Argentina's YPF (YPF)-- and smaller up - and - comers like internet radio pioneer Pandora Media (P).
Since the index is
cap - weighted there is definitely a
large -
cap bias to it.
This is a selling point if you're specifically looking to avoid a
large -
cap bias.
If traditional indexes give too much weight to
large or overvalued companies, equal - weight indexes are
biased toward small -
cap stocks, sometimes dramatically.
The fund can have termed «high risk» because unlike most ELSS funds that follow a multi-
cap approach with a relatively safe
large -
cap bias, the
large cap exposure in Reliance Tax Saver for the past two years has been 30 to 40 percent with a much higher concentration in small and mid-caps.
Otherwise your portfolio will have a
bias toward
large cap stocks that you might not want.
[Then there's the defensive investor who only invests in lumbering
large caps... Or growth investors, who have their own
biases & foibles — they could employ, in appropriate fashion, some / all of these stock selection filters too].
To keep things simple, we could put 10 % in Claymore Canadian Fundamental (CRQ), since this
large -
cap ETF has a value
bias.
Here, historical results suggest a certain
bias in favour of value stocks, both
large and small
cap.
The fund's investments are majorly
biased towards
large caps with a high growth aim.
The strategies in the «core» portion will typically have a strong
bias towards an investor's goals and objectives, such as
large and mid-
cap index funds / ETFs and
large / mid / small -
cap growth companies if the aim is for growth.
I have always tilted from the
large -
cap bias of the Vanguard US Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) toward holdings with small -
cap value using the Vanguard small -
cap value ETF (VBR).