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Index (or indexed) management: management technique to obtain a performance equivalent to that of a benchmark index by replicating it or also with the assistance of futures contracts. The "tracking error" is very low.

Index: a basket of securities measuring the performance of an economic sector or group of sectors starting from a base year. The index serves as a support for arbitrage, speculative, hedge or investment transactions. It is obtained by taking the simple or weighted average of a certain number of stock prices. The  principal indices are the DAX 30 in Frankfurt, the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo, the Dow Jones Industrial Average in New York and the CAC 40 in Paris.

Interest rate risk: risk that a financial asset reduces in value or that a financial liability increase in value when market interest rates change. Interest rate risk may be defined as the risk sustained by the holder of a current, future or conditional debt, at a fixed or variable rate, to future movements in interest rates resulting from the volatility of rates and/or distortion of the yield curve.

Interest rate: rate of remuneration of cash according to maturity and set risk.Investment / Repurchase: undertaking to buy /resell shares in a UCITS issued by a company.

Investment/Repurchase: undertaking to buy /resell shares in a UCITS issued by a company.