For those that think that the popular indexes (e.g., cap-weighted S&P 500) are too heavily concentrated, there are equal weight indexes and funds available: *

For those that think that the popular indexes (e.g., cap-weighted S&P 500) are too heavily concentrated, there are equal weight indexes and funds available: * https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500-equal-weight-index/#overview https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500-equa... * https://www.ishares.com/ch/professionals/en/products/328658/ishares-s-p-500-equal-weight-ucits-etf https://www.ishares.com/ch/professionals/en/products/328658/... * https://www.invesco.com/ca/en/financial-products/etfs/invesco-sp-500-equal-weight-index-etf-cad.html https://www.invesco.com/ca/en/financial-products/etfs/invesc... US equity markets / stocks look to have outperformed other markets over the last few years, it may be more that US tech stocks have been the outperformers (rather than US stocks generally): > Looking at this data, there are two distinct periods of extended U.S. outperformance—the late 1990s and today. And what do these two periods have in common? The rise of U.S. technology stocks. Bespoke Investment Group recently created this chart illustrating this phenomenon: > Now that the U.S. technology sector makes up over 30% of the S&P 500 (as it did back in 2000), this begs the question: Is U.S. outperformance just a technological fad? * https://ofdollarsanddata.com/do-you-need-to-own-international-stocks/ https://ofdollarsanddata.com/do-you-need-to-own-internationa... Reminder that US stocks can do badly (and the only thing that could save US domestic investors is bonds): * https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-decade-was-a-golden-age-if-you-rebalanced/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...