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Why stock beta is not equal to its index weight?

It's trivial to calculate the betas given the index weights $w$ and the covariance matrix of all stocks $\Sigma$: The index return is $$ r_{\rm index} = w^T r $$ The beta of stocks to the index is $$ \...
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