>Don't you have on the order of tens of thousands of dollars invested in Intel through retirement savings, though? Why is my fund in Intel but not in Apple? Th

>Don't you have on the order of tens of thousands of dollars invested in Intel through retirement savings, though? Why is my fund in Intel but not in Apple? The whole point of choosing the index is so that you are diversified. You would only lose if Intel lost out to a foreign company, otherwise the demise of Intel is made palatable by the rise of Apple and AMD.