Description to the Russell 2000 Index Fund, traded under ticker symbol IWM: This ETF is a fund, created in May 2000, that corresponds to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the small-cap sector of the United States equities market as represented by the Russell 2000 Index. The underlying index represents approximately two thousand of the smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index and gauges the performance of the small-cap sector of the Us equities market.