Definition

Index fund

noun IN-deks fund

A passively managed fund, where investors are buying into a portfolio that a particular segment of the market, called an index. Examples include the S&P 500 & Vanguard 500.

In a sentence

The index fund held a basket of crypto assets designed to track a market benchmark.

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