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An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks.

An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day.

Most ETFs track an index, such as a stock index or bond index.

ETFs may be attractive as investments because of their low costs, tax efficiency, and stock-like features.

By 2013, ETFs were the most popular type of exchange-traded product.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.

In economics and finance, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points.

These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment.

Economic indices track economic health from different perspectives.

Influential global financial indices such as the Global Dow, and the NASDAQ Composite track the performance of selected large and powerful companies in order to evaluate and predict economic trends.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 primarily track U.S. markets, though some legacy international companies are included.

The consumer price index tracks the variation in prices for different consumer goods and services over time in a constant geographical location, and is integral to calculations used to adjust salaries, bond interest rates, and tax thresholds for inflation.

The GDP Deflator Index, or real GDP, measures the level of prices of all new, domestically produced, final goods and services in an economy.

Market performance indices include the labour market index/job index and proprietary stock market index investment instruments offered by brokerage houses.

A company, abbreviated co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals.

Companies take various forms such as:

Real estate development, or property development, is a multifaceted business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

Real estate developers are the people and companies who coordinate all of these activities, converting ideas from paper to real property.

Real estate development is different from construction, although many developers also manage the construction process.