Because you're asking your portfolio manager to make you a custom index fund. The whole point of an index fund is to spread risk among lots of companies and sell fragments of that risk to lots of people. You can make your own custom index fund, it's called buying a share of every stock other than the ones you don't want.
Because you're asking your portfolio manager to make you a custom index fund. The whole point of an index fund is to spread risk among lots of companies and sell fragments of that risk to lots of people. You can make your own custom index fund, it's called buying a share of every stock other than the ones you don't want.