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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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