Index

[Maurader1]

I'm looking at investinging some broad indexes, but they all seem to be cap weighted, and if i combine a domestic + international index, I'd be overweighted in the financial/energy sectors..is there any way to work around this?

[kimchi]

If you want to be over/underweight in certain sectors, then maybe indexing isn't for you.

You could buy an index fund as a core holding and purchase some smaller satellite sector funds such as tech/health/retail/utilities or whatever, which will dilute the energy/financial holdings in your index fund.

Alternatively, you could hedge against the sectors you dislike by shorting some sector ETFs

If you have a market opinion, then maybe indexing won't meet all your objectives.

[gull]

There are some fundamentally weighted funds out there. WisdomTree has some foreign dividend-weighted funds (note that dividends are the weakest value indicator). Rydex has some fundamentally weighted funds too.