In
particular, when other shareholders sell
shares from a fund, a mutual fund company may ultimately have to sell some
of the
securities it holds and realize a capital gain which is allocated to all shareholders
of the fund.
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If you'd like to try to achieve a performance similar to that
of a
particular index, you can either directly copy the index on your own (by buying all
of the individual
securities in the index) or purchase
shares of a index mutual fund or exchange - traded fund that essentially replicates the index.
Contract — 1) the unit
of trading for a
particular futures contract (e.g., one contract may be 100
shares of the underlying
security), 2) the type
of future being traded (e.g., futures on ABC stock).