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The subject of this address

This address writes about overlap: what a portfolio already owns before anything new is added to it. A core allocation bought for breadth often already carries a large share of whatever a thematic sleeve is being considered for, so the marginal exposure a decision actually buys is smaller than the sleeve implies and sometimes close to nothing.

Working that out is a look-through exercise rather than a category one. Two funds in different categories can hold six of the same ten companies at the top, and two in the same category can barely intersect. The label is the least informative thing on the page for this particular question.

The uncomfortable version is that a portfolio can be diversified by line item and concentrated by company.

That shows up in a drawdown, it does not show up in a holdings count, and it is the reason the work is worth doing before the position exists rather than after.

The work itself is unglamorous and takes an afternoon: pull the holdings, match them by company rather than by name, and see what is left. It is almost always worth the afternoon.

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What you will meet in these notes

Look-through

reading what a fund actually holds rather than what its category says, so overlap with a portfolio can be measured instead of assumed.

Effective exposure

the exposure a decision genuinely adds once what is already held is taken out of it, which is usually smaller than the position size suggests.

Contribution

how much of a period return came from which holdings, up and down, which answers a different question from weight.

Threshold rebalance

trading when a weight drifts past a band rather than on a date, which trades more in volatile years and less in quiet ones.