S&P 500

Why do people use the S&P 500 as a proxy for equity performance instead of tracking the returns of all equities? Would the S&P 500 tend to overstate equity returns by excluding smaller/arguably lower quality stocks? So why are fund returns usually compared to the S&P 500?

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