The Difference Between Participation and Leadership

Markets continue to broaden beneath the surface, but participation and leadership are not always the same thing. While small caps and selective commodities such as copper have begun to improve alongside the broader risk-on environment, longer-term relative leadership trends still appear more firmly concentrated within large-cap growth and technology. For advisors, the current environment may increasingly require distinguishing between areas that are simply participating in improving market conditions and those that could be establishing more durable leadership trends.

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