Benchmark stock market index
Known as "the S&P 500" or simply "the market," the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the most commonly used benchmark for the large-cap segment of the US domestic stock market. The index represents approximately 500 US-based companies and covers approximately 75% of the US equity market. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall stock market. The Fund employs an indexing investment approach to track the The words “benchmark” and “index” are often used interchangeably, But the objective of the DJW 5000 is to measure the performance of the entire U.S. stock market, not the investable