small-cap fund

small-cap fund
A mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks of companies whose market value is less than $1 billion. Small-cap stocks historically have been more volatile than large-cap stocks, and often perform differently from the overall market. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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