The poll found that millennials are the most likely generation to be inspired to retire early due to COVID, with 15% saying they were moving up their retirement timeline.
For decades, financial risk modeling has been based on standard deviation assumptions, such as the Gaussian Distribution, modern portfolio theory, and bell curve risk models. While this approach works great in fields like science, it has shown significant shortcomings during extreme market events. Why?
just 10 stocks are currently responsible for around 80% of market movement, pushing the index to its highest concentration levels in 50 years. The conversation explains how the S&P 500's market-cap weighting amplifies this effect, making the index less diversified than it appears.