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Course 8 of 14 · included in the Markets subscription

Indices and ETFs

What you are actually buying when you buy an index, and where the differences hide.

What it covers

  1. 01What an index is
  2. 02Three ways to weight the same three stocks
  3. 03Concentration
  4. 04Membership, and the day the list changes
  5. 05What an ETF is
  6. 06What a fund costs
  7. 07Tracking
  8. 08Where the differences hide
  9. 09Leveraged and inverse funds
  10. 10Reading a fund before anything else
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