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Index Fund

Definition: Index Fund

Index Fund

Noun

1. A mutual fund that invests in the stocks that are the basis of a well-known stock or bond index.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Commercial Usage: Index Fund

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Index Fund Solution: A Step-By-Step Investor's Guide (reference)

  • Thomson Financial Mutual Fund Report : DSPIX: Dreyfus Basic S&P 500 Index Fund [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Index fund

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An index fund is a type of mutual fund that adjusts its holdings match the components of a particular asset-class or stock market index. For example, an S&P 500 index fund should consist of the same assets as the S&P 500 index, or at least a representative sample, represented in roughly the same proportions. Index funds closely track the performance of their underlying indices.

There are a number of advantages and disadvantages to investing in an index fund. The chief advantage of this type of fund is typically its performance versus managed funds. Another advantage is lower expense ratio; by using a public index to determine the makeup of a fund, fund managers can forgo expensive research costs. Index funds also tend to incur lower taxes, as they generally hold securities for longer terms than more aggressively managed funds.

One of the key disadvantages of index funds is that the components of an index tend to change infrequently. This can potentially expose the fund to greater risk in a sudden downturn. Furthermore, since index funds are designed to track broad swings of the market rather than collecting individual stocks that "beat the market", they may not be ideal for short-term investors.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Index fund."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Index Fund

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

index fund

501

vanguard 500 index fund

23

index fund investing

17

s p 500 index fund

14

vanguard index fund

13

index fund trading

5
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Modern Translations: Index Fund

Language Translations for "index fund"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

indeksstyret investeringsforening, indeksfond. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

indexfonds. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

indeksirahasto. (various references)

   

French

  

SICAV indicielle. (various references)

   

German

  

Indexfonds. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

index fund. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fondo d'investimento indicizzato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

インディペンデントリ"ング運動 (indent, indentation, Independent Living Movement, index, indexation, indexing, India, indices, intonation, introduction). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

インデックスファンド . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indexay undfay

   

Portuguese

  

fundo de investimentos. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fondos en índices. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

SICAV-indexfond. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Index Fund

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-f-i-n-n-u-x"

-2 letters: unfixed.

-3 letters: defund, dinned, dunned, finned, funded, funned, indued, undine.

-4 letters: dined, ennui, fiend, fined, fixed, fundi, index, indue, inned, nided, nixed, nudie, undid, unfed, unfix.

-5 letters: defi, deni, died, dine, dude, dune, fend, feud, find, fine, fund, neif, nide, nine, nixe, nude, unde.

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Alternative Orthography: Index Fund


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 64 65 78      46 75 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01111000 00100000 01000110 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#120 &#32 &#70 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0065 0078      0046 0075 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4380707190240878070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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