Finance

Gartner Glossary

Index Fund

An index fund is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund that is constructed to track the performance of the components in a financial market index. Examples include the Dow Jones Industrial Average index, the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite index.

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