Definition of mosquito for English Language Learners. : a small flying insect that bites the skin of people and animals and sucks their blood.
What it is: Small-cap stock refers to a company with a market capitalization (calculated by taking a firm's current share price and multiplying that figure by the total number of shares outstanding) near the low end of the publicly traded spectrum.
Re: Total International vs Developed Markets Index Fund. modhatter wrote:The distinction between emerging markets and small caps is the country or origin the company is based in. The Developed Market Index has about the same % (about 17+%) of stocks in Emerging Markets in that fund, which seems to be a contradiction of developed markets.