Transcript
A (0:00)
What's up guys? On this episode of Full Signal we have Todd Sohn. He is the chief ETF strategist at Strategus and we get into the sectors he's watching in the stock market right now. What's going on in health care, energy software, crypto, bitcoin and much more. This is a fantastic conversation that is packed with charts and data. I learned a ton and I think you're going to love it. Todd, I'm so glad you're here today. I got to ask you about the exposure to trillion dollar companies. We have Eli Lilly joining Walmart joining the club and pretty much every major fund and ETF is heavily weighted to trillion dollar companies. What is going on here?
B (0:39)
So first you inspired me to update this table because I think you wrote about Walmart joining the trillion dollar league in your opening bell a few weeks ago.
A (0:48)
Right, I did.
B (0:49)
So thank you for that. That's the value I get from you, which is great. Secondly, okay, so this is not a bearish argument or take anything like that. This is not about participation because by most measures participation in the equity market is really strong right now. This is about over ownership of a small cohort of names and I try to tell this to our clients, to advisors and whatnot, that if you own large cap blend funds, S&P 500, large cap growth like the Russell 1000, if you own say a thematic AI ETF and then even in some other cases in the factor world, quality, momentum, some rotation type strategies, they all own a large chunk of these names. And while that has been beneficial over time, you may just want to look under the hood of your portfolio and say wow, do I have too much exposure here and should I be paying attention to the other stuff that is not heavily influential in the benchmarks. It's almost like you're having too much ice cream, right? Too much ice cream, too many cherries on top, whipped cream, all that stuff. Especially now that some of these names have corrected a little bit. I think it makes a lot of sense to look under the hood of your portfolio and understand where you have too much exposure and where you need
A (2:00)
to upgrade the allocations to, well, some of these funds. We have the table here. Spy 39% Exposure to trillion dollar companies QQQ 48% IWF 56% I don't think most people realize that. I certainly didn't realize it till I looked at your charts. Honestly, is there a way to even diversify in this market? Because if all the most popular retirement account ETFs are so heavily weighted. Right. What do you do with this?
B (2:32)
So there's a few routes you can go international, which apparently people are doing based on the flows. Whether that's developed international like Europe and Japan, Canada, emerging markets, that's gonna be more volatile, but that's starting to work again as well. And then you can look to lower correlated assets. So when I think about this, I think of natural resources.
