About This Site

IVX Reference is a small, focused reference site about investing terminology and mechanics: how funds are structured, how their fees are disclosed, how retirement-account types are labeled, and how volatility indexes are calculated and quoted.

It is written for ordinary readers — someone opening their first brokerage account, comparing fund options in a workplace plan, or trying to understand a financial headline — who want plain explanations grounded in primary sources rather than marketing copy.

Two things to know about how the site works:

• It is reference material, not advice. The pages here are reviewed educational summaries of publicly documented rules and definitions. Nothing on this site is investment, tax, or legal advice, and nothing here should be the basis for a decision about your money. For decisions, consult a licensed financial professional or tax advisor.
• Claims link to their sources. Where a page leans on a definition or a rule, it links to the primary publisher — the SEC's Investor.gov, the IRS, FINRA, or Cboe — so you can verify the original text yourself.

If a page seems out of date or unclear, the fix is always the same: follow the linked primary source, which is authoritative where this site is only a summary.