What is a tracker fund?

Instead of trying to beat the market, tracker funds – also known as “passive” funds – try to track its performance. Here's what that means.

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If you want to invest money in the stockmarket, there are various ways to go about it. You can buy shares in individual companies, but this involves doing lots of research and, ideally, having a solid grasp of how to read and analyse a set of accounts.

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