~ No. My cake slice illustration for ETFs - which is not original with me - is as follows: I have a cake, perhaps of a rectangular shape, with all sorts of logos of companies on the top, made via frosting and such. So you may see the Apple logo on one corner, the google logo, sun microsystems logo, amazon logo in the middle, Aeropostale logo, or Pepsi and so on. All these are on the top of the cake and made via icing, frosting, etc. Now if I cut a rectangular slice from one corner of the cake, which has a logo of say, Apple, on it, then it is as if I got ( = purchased) shares of Apple. On the other hand, if I took a cross-sectional slice of the entire cake, from one side to the other, then I get a bit of all the companies, Apple, Amazon, Pepsi, etc. In this large but very thin slice, I get diversity. This slice is an etf. ChatGPT> That’s a great illustration! Your cake analogy effectively communicates the concept of ETFs versus individual stocks. H...
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