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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by tylerhou on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:30PM (#19685671)
you can short the stock to reduce your exposure outside of your retirement fund
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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by dragontamer on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:31PM (#19685692)
This right here. This is exactly why hedging options exist. If shorting isn't available, then you can make due with options short-call + long-put is roughly equivalent to a short stock.

In any case, the point of a S&P500 fund is to get exposure to ALL companies, roughly in order of their size. Facebook is a big company, so any fund should have a chunk of it.

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