If you didn’t know, yes. Index Funds together with corresponding index funds create their composed of stocks and other assets by following simple rules they have created for themselves. And these are:
1) Geography.
In this one these funds mainly focus on stocks that can be trade on foreign exchanges or a combination of international exchanges.
2) Asset type
This one focuses on funds that track domestic together with foreign bonds, commodities and cash.
3) Market opportunities
This one is about the emerging markets and sometimes about other nascent but growing sectors for investment.
4) Company size and capitalisation
This one is about the index funds that track all companies no matter if they are small, medium-sized or large companies. This process is also called as “small-, mid- or large-cap indexes”.
5) Business sector or industry
This one rule is about funds that mainly focus on consumer goods, technology, health-related businesses but also about everything else which you can imagine about a company or a business.