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Comment by naveen99

14 hours ago

The stocks in the index funds are picked, just by a committee. And there are a few competing index funds.

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mhh__  12 hours ago

They're picked (mostly) using very mechanical rules though so e.g. hedge funds actively speculate on which stocks will be added to the index

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