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Re:Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs by jldugger on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:40PM (#20883135)
> index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index

SP500 is a market cap weighted index. That would alleviate some of this hypothetical problem, no?

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