Index fund is a fund product that takes a specific index as the target index, takes the constituent stocks of the index as the investment object, builds a portfolio by purchasing all or part of the constituent stocks of the index, and tracks the performance of the target index. At present, the mainstream indexes in the market are the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index, the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq 100 Index. PortfolioSolutions and Betterment, the investment service organizations, published a research report, analyzing the performance of the investment portfolio with 65,438+00 assets from 65,438+097 to 2065,438+02. The results show that index fund investment is better than active management investment when it is 82% to 90%.

Equity funds, also known as equity funds, refer to funds that invest in the stock market. There are many kinds of securities funds. At present, in addition to stock funds, there are also bond funds, stock-bond mixed funds and money market funds in China.

The content of this article comes from People's Republic of China (PRC) Financial Code: Application Edition by China Law Publishing House.