An index fund (also index tracker) is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to follow certain preset rules so that it can replicate the...

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product, i.e., it is traded on stock exchanges. ETFs own financial...

BlackRock and State Street, Vanguard is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers that play a dominant role in retail investing. Founder and former...

stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and "track" an index. The difference...

iShares is a collection of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index mutual funds managed by BlackRock, which acquired the brand and business from Barclays...

of appearance in the Fragile States Index (formerly the Failed States Index) of the United States think tank Fund for Peace. A fragile state has several...

A commodity index fund is a fund whose assets are invested in financial instruments based on or linked to a commodity price index. In just about every...

investment performance: Evidence from the domini 400 social index and domini equity fund." Review of Financial Economics 6, 23–35. Statman, M. (2000)...

iShares (e.g., iShares S&P Target Date 2040 Index Fund; NYSE Arca TZV). The following ETFs are not index-based but rather actively managed: AdvisorShares...

first S&P 500 index fund to the general public starting in 1973, while employed at American National Bank of Chicago. Sinquefield's fund had $12 billion...

tracks the underlying index's performance. The turnover of securities in an index fund's portfolio is minimal. As a result, an index fund generally has lower...

S&P/TSX Capped Technology Index Fund (TSX: XIT) S&P/TSX Capped Basic Materials Index Fund (TSX: XMA) S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index Fund (TSX: XRE) List of companies...

executive of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund. An avid investor and money manager himself, he preached investment over...

Income Index fund, Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX), and Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund (FXNAX). Fund managers sometimes subdivide the different...

brokerage firm, manages mutual funds, provides fund distribution and investment advice, retirement services, index funds, wealth management, securities execution...

mutual fund and ONEQ exchange-traded fund (ETF). Invesco offers the QQQ ETF, which matches the performance of the Nasdaq-100, a different index which tracks...

mimic the performance of an externally specified index by buying an index fund. By tracking an index, an investment portfolio typically gets good diversification...

investing and "runs the oldest small-cap index fund" in the United States. However, the firm's versions of index funds have the flexibility to trade daily...

A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve...

Growth fund would not beat the FTSE 100 index, nor his Virgin Index Tracker fund over three years, nor achieve its stated aim to beat the index by 2% each...

following exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attempt to track the index and sub-indexes: Index Fund SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF (NYSE Arca: MDY) Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap...

in Lucknow, India Index Corporation, a Japanese video game developer Index fund, a collective investment scheme Stock market index, a statistical average...

was the single largest mutual fund in the world until April 2000, when it was displaced by Vanguard's S&P 500 index fund. Fidelity earns its income, like...

BlackRock and Vanguard, State Street is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers that dominate retail investing. The company is ranked 316th on...

exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attempt to track the performance of the index: Index Fund iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSE Arca: IJR) Vanguard S&P Small-Cap...

Fund – VOO S Fund – VXF I Fund – VEA F Fund – BND G Fund – VGSH The TSP can also be approximated by tracking the performance of the index each fund seeks...

indices through a total return swap or a commodity index fund. The advantages of a passive commodity index exposure include negative correlation with other...

philanthropist who has been called an "index-fund pioneer" for creating the first passively managed index fund open to the general public. Sinquefield...

mutual funds and exchange-traded funds attempt to "track" an index (see index fund), and those funds that do not may be judged against those that do. Total...

percent terms, the fund has to maintain an alpha greater than its fees in order to provide positive gains compared with an index fund. Historically, the...