A tracker is a person or animal that finds other people or animals by following the marks left by their feet and other signs that show where they have been.
tracker in Finance
(trækər)
Word forms: (regular plural) trackers
noun
(Finance: Investment)
A tracker is a fund that follows or tracks a market index.
An index tracker fund is a collective investment vehicle that is designed to follow the performanceof a particular index.
A tracker fund invests to try to emulate movement of the index.
A tracker is a fund that follows or tracks a market index.
Examples of 'tracker' in a sentence
tracker
The other half also had a commercially available fitness tracker, in the hope that it would improve their performance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There are, of course, many fitness trackers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Lifetime trackers are likely to become increasingly popular.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This has got more problematic due to the continuing growth of index trackers.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This funky lime green fitness tracker relays all your steps and quality of sleep to your phone.
The Sun (2016)
Lenders are also moving to tie borrowers in to lifetime trackers for longer periods.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Index trackers will be able to invest more in the company.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This fitness and sleep tracker can tell the time.
The Sun (2016)
Another reason for the growing popularity of lifetime trackers is their flexibility.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
ETFs tend to be cheaper than index trackers and better value than actively managed funds.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The fitness tracker is also a sleep tracker.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
People are crazed about wearing their wrist fitness trackers and counting their steps.
Christianity Today (2000)
Could your fitness tracker be making you fatter?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The fees for an active manager are usually higher than those of index trackers to reflect the extra work involved.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The bank offers the only lifetime tracker at less than 2%.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It also has a lifetime tracker deal with no ERC.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A basic index tracker would have an active share of 0%.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Get a good tracker mortgage while you can Many tracker loans have got more expensive for new borrowers in recent weeks because of the credit crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This would save you an annual 90 if you have 10,000 invested in index trackers.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Programme makers used GPS trackers to show that dogs allowed off the lead covered five times more ground than those that were not.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Investors would stand a good chance of doing better in a tracker fund, which simply mimics an index, at a much lower cost.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
All related terms of 'tracker'
tracker dog
a dog specially trained to hunt fugitives or to search for missing people
black tracker
an Aboriginal tracker working for the police
fast-tracker
a person who is being fast-tracked for promotion
tracker fund
A tracker fund is an investment in which shares in different companies are bought and sold so that the value of the shares held always matches the average value of shares in all or part of a stock market.
trackball
A trackball is a ball on some computers that you turn in order to move the cursor.
index-tracking fund
an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index