What fund is an index fund?
There are two kinds of index funds, one is the fund name with the word index, and the other is ETF fund. The latter is the English abbreviation of transactional open index fund, which is different from ordinary index funds. It can be purchased and redeemed (on-site) and traded in the secondary market like stocks, but the threshold for purchase and redemption is relatively high.
If you want to choose an index fund to invest, you need to know what indexes there are first. From this point of view, we need to know the type of index first, and then we need to know where to query the index.
1 Type of index. The most common dividing methods are broad-based index and narrow-based index. The former refers to the index in which constituent stocks are distributed in multiple sectors, while the latter refers to the index in which constituent stocks are concentrated in a certain sector.
2 query method. The most authoritative index websites in China are CSI official website and CSI official website, from which the targets of most index funds can be found.