Index Funds: Traditional and Not-So-Traditional
Originally from Broadridge Content. Read the original article on the publisher’s site.
Index funds accounted for more than half of long-term fund assets in 2025 (see chart). These funds attempt to track the performance of a market index by holding all or a representative sample of the securities in the index. Many funds follow well-known indexes such as the S&P 500, Russell 2000, or NASDAQ Composite. But there are hundreds of other indexes that track various segments of the stock and bond markets.
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