Financial Jargon Buster Dictionary
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Index Fund
A portfolio of securities structured in such a way that its value will closely follow a nominated market index, e.g. an equity index fund may be designed to track the FT/S&P All Share Index. There are three main methods in use; Replication, Stratified Sampling and Optimised Sampling.
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