Passive indices outperformed active managers in recent years as US equity markets became more concentrated and dispersion declined: concentration in the five largest stocks in the S&P 500 had been increasing since 2013 and it peaked at 24% in 2020, when Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft benefited from a stay-athome environment in which people increasingly used technology to communicate, shop and work.

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