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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (24627)12/3/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: James Thai  Read Replies (1) of 27307
 
**OT**

I believe that some index funds are set up to mimic the returns of an index, rather than to precisely represent the index through
their equity ownership. Of course the prospectus must specify this. TIAA-CREF, I believe, has an Equity Index fund which is
designed to mimic the Rutherford 3000 (which in turn typically tracks the S&P 500 pretty well) without owning all of the
companies. It seems to work very well.

Exactly. This was what I was trying to get at :) As well, in Canada, RRSPs (similar to IRAs) only allow 20% foreign content, so some index funds still manage to mimic US indicies using deriviatives yet still own less than 20% foreign content.

James.
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