As the U.S. government mulls restrictions on outbound investment into China, a particular area of controversy is financial products through which millions of ordinary investors funnel billions of dollars into the country — index tracker funds.
Such funds enable those who put money into them to track the fortunes of a particular index, like the S&P 500. The funds do this by investing their assets into the companies in proportion to the weighting that each stock has in that index.
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