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Investment Fund

Categories: Investing, Index Funds, IPO

A "pool of assets" which were bought or invested in. They exist in a legal form called—yes, you guessed it—a fund. These funds are what investment-bankers create, mutual-fund managers obsess over, and everyone else squints at while muttering nonsense about "the Dow" in an effort to appear intelligent.

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