A fund that holds a market index by rule, taking each bond or share at its index weight rather than a view of the issuer. Chapter 10.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 10 — The Lender’s Decision
Who is lending the money and who bears the loss: the bonds, leases and guarantees behind the largest campuses, and how the paper reaches ordinary retirement accounts.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Index fund.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/index-fund (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-index-fund-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Index fund}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/index-fund},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}