To track the index, the ETF holds shares in 55 companies, more focused on gas than oil.
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This makes it difficult to ensure a bond ETF encompasses enough liquid bonds to track an index.
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They are portfolios that must be continuously maintained by real people who face difficult issues when trying to track an index.
These portfolios may track an index or they may be actively managed.
Global X Pure Gold Miners ETF ( GGGG) seeks to track an index that limits inclusion to companies that generate the vast majority of their business from gold mining.
Despite the many specialty ETFs that have come on the market in recent years, most ETFs are index mutual funds and these ETFs track closely with index mutual funds that follow the same index.
Index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) track benchmarks like index mutual funds but trade on exchanges like stocks.
There are a lot of exchange traded funds out there that track the same index.
These are all tickers for exchange-traded funds, fixed baskets of securities traded like stocks and intended to track a particular index or subindex.
These do not try to outperform the stockmarket, but instead track a broad market index, saving costs and charging lower management fees.
Index funds track the performance of markets and charge very low fees.
Motif Investing has put together a motif index to track rebuilding efforts along the path of the storm called Rebuilding After Sandy.
Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.
In the U.K., index-linked gilts adjust for movements in the Retail Price Index (RPI) and are similar to their American cousins, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which track the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
If you invest in single asset class index funds like the Vanguard Total US Stock Market index or the Spartan International Index at Fidelity, you can easily compare the performance of your individual holdings to the market index they track.
The Vanguard Group manages index funds and ETFs that track the MSCI EAFE and its two components, the MSCI European Index and MSCI Pacific Index.
Similar to low-cost index mutual funds, ETFs track segments of the market and try to match a benchmark stock or bond index rather than beat it.
The proliferation of low-cost index funds that track various asset classes makes the implementation of this strategy easy.
This may lead you to buy passively-managed low-cost index funds that track benchmark performance less a small fee.
Both strategies will not perfectly track the crude oil spot index regardless.
The notion of having a "happiness index" to track a country's power to smile, not just to spend, used to be the quirky preserve of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
One way to substantially decrease individual stock risk is obviously to diversify among numerous small cap stocks, and the easiest way to accomplish that is via ETFs designed to track with a small stock index.
The company uses thousands of index cards to keep track of customers' foot measurements.
Leveraged ETFs seek to deliver multiples of the performance of the index or benchmark they track.
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In theory, index funds attempt to track the overall market without bias.
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Like other search programs, it works by building an index that can keep track of all of a user's mail and quickly search through it.
Making the markets more accessible to outsiders, Merrill Lynch is listing its Africa Lions Index certificates, which track shares in at least 15 African countries, on several European exchanges.
Without Apple beating Wall Street forecasts by 37% last quarter, the 500 index would be on track to fall 3% short of earnings forecasts, instead of meeting them, Mr. Silverblatt says.
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To avoid overlap, it makes sense to ensure that the ETFs you use for developed-markets exposure should track a benchmark from the same index provider as the ETF you use to capture the developing world.
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