Index Funds
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Index fund — An index fund or index tracker is a collective investment scheme (usually a mutual fund or exchange traded fund) that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market, or a set of rules of ownership that are held… … Wikipedia
Index Investing — A form of passive investing that aims to generate the same rate of return as an underlying market index. Investors that use index investing seek to replicate the performance of a specific index – generally an equity or fixed income index… … Investment dictionary
Index Fund — A type of mutual fund with a portfolio constructed to match or track the components of a market index, such as the Standard Poor s 500 Index (S P 500). An index mutual fund is said to provide broad market exposure, low operating expenses and low… … Investment dictionary
Index Hugger — A managed mutual fund that tends to perform much like a benchmark index such as the S P 500, which gives it the reputation of being a closet index fund. The majority of actively managed funds are expected to outperform the so called average… … Investment dictionary
Index Roll — A passive index investing strategy that is established by using a combination of index funds and long term equity anticipation securities (LEAPS). The investor must roll over a series of LEAP options in an attempt to gain exposure to a long term… … Investment dictionary
index — in·dex 1 n: a numerical measure or indicator (as of inflation or economic performance) see also consumer price index index 2 vt: to link (as wages, rates, or investments) to an index under the contract wages were index ed to inflation M … Law dictionary
Index Investing — Index Investing, Indexing (engl.) oder Indexorientiertes Anlegen (dt.) ist eine Anlagestrategie, bei der der Anleger versucht, das Portfolio in seiner Zusammenstellung einem bestimmten, repräsentativen Index (z. B. DAX, Dow Jones Industrial… … Deutsch Wikipedia
index-tracker — UK US noun [C] ► a set of shares in all the companies in a stock market whose value exactly follows that stock market s value: »index tracker investments → Compare MANAGED FUND(Cf. ↑managed fund) index tracking adjective ► » … Financial and business terms
index-tracking — index tracker UK US noun [C] ► a set of shares in all the companies in a stock market whose value exactly follows that stock market s value: »index tracker investments → Compare MANAGED FUND(Cf. ↑managed fund) index tracking adjective ► » … Financial and business terms
Index Ventures — is a venture capital investment fund based in Geneva,Switzerland. Funds currently under management are believed to be about 500M Euros. [http://www.tornado insider.com/radar/compShow.asp?compID=4657] The main areas the fund invests in are… … Wikipedia
