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WSJ What’s News

The Buried $150 Billion Bet Inside the Top 20 U.S. Stocks

Aug 2, 2026 · 34m

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This week, we’re bringing you an episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week . Host Telis Demos and guest host Spencer Jakab, investing columnist and writer of the Markets A.M. newsletter , are joined by Kaitlin Hendrix, asset allocation research director at Dimensional Fund Advisors, to decode investors’ surging interest in private markets. They break down how investors may already have exposure in their investment portfolios to private companies like Anthropic, Stripe and Flipkart, through holdings in companies like Alphabet's Google, Amazon and Nvidia. Hendrix explains why your public index fund might already provide the diversification you’re looking for, without the high fees. Plus, Jakab…