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1. Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares (VFIAX) The goal of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund is to track the performance of the S&P 500, which includes stocks with large market capitalizations. As ...
To invest in an index fund’s admiral shares you must maintain an investment of $3,000 in the fund, where you’ll pay just 4 basis points, or 0.04 percent, in annual fees.
An index fund is a type of mutual fund that either buys all or a representative sample of securities in a specific index, such as the S&P 500. Instead of being actively managed by fund managers,...
Allocations can vary by the fund’s strategy. Balanced funds come as ETFs or mutual funds. ETFs are exchange-traded funds that hold baskets of securities, similar to the structure of mutual funds.
An index fund's rules of construction clearly identify the type of companies suitable for the fund. The most commonly known index fund in the United States, the S&P 500 Index Fund, is based on the rules established by S&P Dow Jones Indices for their S&P 500 Index. Equity index funds would include groups of stocks with similar characteristics ...
In finance, a stock market index future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. The turnover for the global market in exchange-traded equity index futures is notionally valued, for 2008, by the Bank for International Settlements at US$130 trillion.
The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index (WSJ Dollar Index) is an index (or measure) of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to 16 foreign currencies. [1] The index is weighted using data provided by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on total foreign exchange (FX) trading volume. The index rises when the U.S. dollar gains value against ...
A capitalization-weighted (or cap-weighted) index, also called a market-value-weighted index is a stock market index whose components are weighted according to the total market value of their outstanding shares. Every day an individual stock's price changes and thereby changes a stock index's value.