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Insurance Brokers

Insurance Brokers is gaining market weight. Lost weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
AcceleratingConcentrated

Most of this industry's gains came from a few companies.

Universe weight
0.59%
$0.10T
12-month change
+0.04 pp
6-month change
+0.30 pp
3-month change
+0.27 pp
Company participation
100%
above their 6M weight average

Where did the weight change come from?

12-month contribution in universe percentage points · contributions add to the industry change

Company attribution
Aon plc →+0.023 pp
All other companies+0.021 pp
Industry total+0.045 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% of gross gains. Opposing contributions can make an individual company’s change larger than the industry’s net change.

How has it moved through history?

Share of matched S&P 500 members

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · market weight (%)

0.30.40.620182019

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10111212320182019

Is participation broad or concentrated?

Actual constituent counts at this date, not the legacy synthetic breadth proxy

Above their 3M universe-weight average100%
Above their 6M universe-weight average100%
Above their 12M universe-weight average100%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap100.0%

This is size concentration, not contribution to the 12-month change. The attribution above measures the latter.

Evidence can disagree

Independent dimensions · no combined score or bullish/bearish verdict

Allocation · 12M+0.04 pp
Relative strength · 12M+15.6%
Price index return · 12M+18.8%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance rose. At least half of constituents are above their 6M weight average. These observations need not agree.
Other evidence and availability

Valuation data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Attention data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Actual fund flows: unavailable. No ETF, mutual-fund or institutional flow feed is connected.

Volume / turnover: unavailable in this dataset.

Follow the contribution to individual companies

Sorted by absolute 12-month weight contribution, not investment merit

CompanySub-industryCountryUniverse weight12M contribution12M price returnRevisions
Aon plc →
AON
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.235%+0.023 pp+23.3%0.0
Marsh McLennan →
MRSH
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.272%+0.015 pp+15.9%0.0
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. →
AJG
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.083%+0.006 pp+16.2%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Mar 20190.590%-0.006 pp+0.273 pp+0.295 pp+0.045 pp+15.6%
Feb 20190.597%+0.281 pp+0.269 pp+0.302 pp+0.062 pp+19.2%
Jan 20190.316%-0.001 pp-0.002 pp-0.209 pp-0.200 pp+18.1%
Dec 20180.317%-0.010 pp+0.022 pp-0.211 pp-0.199 pp+17.8%
Nov 20180.328%+0.009 pp+0.033 pp-0.201 pp-0.189 pp+21.4%
Oct 20180.318%+0.023 pp-0.206 pp-0.229 pp-0.198 pp+17.4%
Sep 20180.295%+0.001 pp-0.233 pp-0.250 pp-0.221 pp+6.6%
Aug 20180.294%-0.230 pp-0.234 pp-0.240 pp-0.222 pp+5.5%
Jul 20180.525%-0.003 pp-0.023 pp+0.008 pp+0.008 pp+4.6%
Jun 20180.528%-0.000 pp-0.018 pp+0.012 pp+0.012 pp+3.4%
May 20180.528%-0.019 pp-0.006 pp+0.012 pp+0.012 pp+2.9%
Apr 20180.548%+0.002 pp+0.031 pp+0.031 pp+0.031 pp+5.5%
Mar 20180.546%+0.011 pp+0.029 pp+0.029 pp+0.029 pp+5.4%
Feb 20180.535%+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+4.0%
Jan 20180.516%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.0%
How are these descriptive states defined?

Gaining / losing: 12-month weight change above +0.005pp / below −0.005pp. Direction and speed are separate dimensions, not mutually exclusive recommendations.

Accelerating / slowing: compare the most recent 3M change with the preceding 3M change. Accelerating means a positive change speeds up by >0.02pp. Slowing means the magnitude of movement declines by >0.02pp. A falling industry can also slow.

Reversing: the last two 3M changes have opposite signs, outside a ±0.005pp tolerance. Persistence counts consecutive same-direction monthly changes.

Broad / concentrated: company attribution, not a market-cap concentration shortcut. Concentrated means the three largest same-direction contributors account for ≥70% of gross same-direction changes; otherwise broad requires ≥60% of constituents moving with the industry. Other cases are mixed.

Weights use matched S&P 500 members’ market-cap estimates, based on SEC-reported shares available by each month-end and monthly closing prices. Companies without a matched price or share record are omitted, so the denominator is the matched sample rather than every index member. These are not official float-adjusted S&P weights. Flow is not measured.