I wrote about adding "monkey nuts" to my #Godot game in which players control a monkey with a big hammer, and how it led to the development of an free asset.
Here's an open secret: the confusing jargon of finance is not the product of some inherent complexity that requires a whole new vocabulary. Rather, finance-talk is all obfuscation, because if we called finance tactics by their plain-language names, it would be obvious that the sector exists to defraud the public and loot the real economy.
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A 19th century Puck illustration of a banker gathering the skyscrapers of Manhattan into his arms. It has been altered. The banker's skin has been tinted brick red, his eyes tinted yellow, and he's been given horns. The sky has been replaced with a halftone scene of storm-clouds, and the ground has been replaced with a washed-out wasteland. His gold cufflink has been made to glitter.
The managers of those funds are trying to match the performance of the market, not improve on it (by voting on corporate governance decisions, say), or to beat it (by only buying stocks of companies they judge to be good bets):
Your family home is nothing like one of these companies. It doesn't have a bunch of minority shareholders who can force a vote, or a large block of disengaged "owners" who won't show up when that vote is called.