Index fund

Equity fund for people who prioritise low costs.

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Good selection of index-linked funds
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What is an index fund?

An index fund is an equity fund that is suitable for people who prioritise low costs and have a savings timeframe of more than six years. You can usually choose between two different types of fund – index funds or active funds.

Index funds only follow the movements of a stock market index and do not try to beat it. These kinds of mutual funds are therefore cheaper to run than actively managed mutual funds. This benefits you as the customer because the management fee is much lower. Low costs can be positive for the returns you achieve on your savings in the long term.

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DNB index management

DNB Asset Management has appointed Eivind Aukrust as manager of index-linked strategies. He works together with Erling Syversveen Lie, who is the junior portfolio manager.

Together, they have a comprehensive financial background from NBIM, trading and management of hedge funds. They have an education in industrial mathematics with a specialisation in finance and technical cybernetics.

How much does it cost to save in index funds?

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Our index funds

DNB Barnefond

DNB Barnefond is an indexed equity fund where around 80 per cent is invested in shares which are listed on the Nordic markets.

Read about DNB Barnefond

DNB Critical Materials

DNB Critical Materials is a thematic index fund that invests in companies within gold, copper, metals, and mining.

Read about DNB Critical Materials

DNB Europa Indeks

DNB Europa Indeks is an index-tracking equity fund that gives broad exposure to the European stock market.

Read about DNB Europa Index

DNB Global Indeks

The fund is an index-following equity fund that is passively managed. It invests in companies listed on stock exchanges and regulated markets in developing economies.

Read about DNB Global Index

DNB Klima Indeks

DNB Klima Indeks is an index-following global equity fund. The index has been compiled to be in line with the Paris Agreement.

Read about DNB Klima Indeks

DNB Norden Indeks

DNB Norden Indeks is an index-tracking equity fund that gives broad exposure to the Nordic stock market.

Read about DNB Norden Index

DNB Norge Indeks

DNB Norge Indeks is an index-tracking equity fund that gives a broad exposure to Norwegian companies.

Read about DNB Norge Indeks

DNB Nuclear Energy

DNB Nuclear Energy is an index-related equity fund that invests in companies that are involved in the nuclear sector.

Read about DNB Kjernekraft

DNB Global Emerging Markets Indeks

DNB Global Emerging Markets Indeks is an index-tracking equity fund that invests in emerging markets all over the world.

Read about DNB Global Emerging Markets Indeks

DNB Global Enhanced Index

DNB Global Enhanced Index is an index-related equity fund that seeks to create returns by following supplementary index strategies.

Read about DNB Global Enhanced Index

DNB Global Enhanced Small Cap

Global index-linked fund that invests in small and medium-sized companies in advanced economies (IMF).

Read about DNB Global Enhanced Small Cap

DNB Global Industrisektor Indeks

DNB Global Industry Sector Index A is an index-related equity fund that mainly invests in companies within the industrial sector.

DNB Global Marked Valutasikret

DNB Global Marked Valutasikret is an index-tracking equity fund that invests through the DNB Global Index fund, but protects fund’s currency exposure.

Read about DNB Global Marked Valutasikret

DNB USA Indeks

DNB USA Indeks is an index-tracking equity fund that gives broad exposure to the US stock market.

Read about DNB USA Index

An equity fund can be actively or passively managed

An equity fund can be managed according to different guidelines. The main categories are active and passive management (index-based management).

Active management means that the fund manager selects a different composition of securities in the mutual fund than the composition of the fund’s benchmark index in order to try to generate better returns.

Passive management involves the mutual fund’s portfolio only having minor deviations from the benchmark index it follows. Since the index fund, among other things, does not have managers trying to generate better returns than the index, the costs are lower than for actively managed funds.

Who are index funds suitable for?

Index funds are suitable for people who prioritise low costs. The value of an equity fund may go up and down and must therefore be able to tolerate fluctuations in the value of your savings.

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Index funds FAQs

Differences between Index funds and actively managed funds

An index manager’s job is to copy the selection of shares found in an index. The difference between an active and a passive fund is that they don’t do research or investigations into the shares that go into an index fund.

An index fund consists of the shares in the index that the fund is going to imitate, with the same distribution of share values. This means that large dominant companies in an index will also have a large, dominant weighting in the index fund, regardless of whether the company is doing well or badly at that specific time.

If you choose to save in an index fund, the index the mutual fund follows will determine what kind of investments and which risk profile you should have.

Why do index funds have lower prices?

Are there any disadvantages to an index fund?

There will always be advantages and disadvantages to any form of saving. If you invest in an index fund, you will not be able to achieve a return greater than the index that the fund is imitating. There is also much more limited selection of index funds, which can make it difficult to find relevant funds if, for example, you believe in a specific industry, or if you want to invest in eco-friendly companies. In that case you may have to choose active funds.

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