| History shows that the majority of funds are doing | | | | Dutch stock market, but these trackers were |
| worse than the index in which the components of | | | | offered by foreign companies. |
| the funds released. This has meant that more and | | | | Besides the AEX Midcap tracker and tracker, the |
| more invested in the index itself. This means that the | | | | three self-developed asset ETFs introduced. These |
| value of the investment rises or it falls into the same | | | | trackers consist of a mix between different |
| decrease or increase in the index. These products are | | | | government bond indices, property indices and stock |
| listed ETFs. | | | | indices. |
| An ETF stands for exchange-traded fund. These | | | | The fact that a Dutch company now offers ETFs |
| ETFs are sometimes called trackers and these | | | | shows that markets outside the United States is also |
| products invest in the index. In the Netherlands there | | | | growing interest in ETFs. So investors will increasingly |
| are a number of providers that trackers or ETFs | | | | recognize the benefits of index investing and thereby |
| offer the AEX index follow the company Think | | | | increasing choice for investing in passive index. |
| Capital is one of them. Recently the company | | | | Previously gave investors prefer to invest in shares |
| launched an ETF that follows another Dutch index, | | | | that they themselves could determine the risk, but |
| the AMX index, also called Midcap. | | | | investors now want is to profit from the security of |
| Since late 2009, this tracker on the Dutch stock | | | | trackers. This is a smart choice as an index of almost |
| tradable. Think Capital is the first Dutch provider of | | | | 80% of cases performs better than a share in the |
| ETFs. Earlier, trackers or ETFs already traded on the | | | | index. |