{"id":1189,"date":"2015-07-10T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2015-07-10T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:35:04","slug":"the-yield-on-the-ftse-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"The Yield on the FTSE-100"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FTSE-100 is the flagship index of the largest UK Companies.
\nFamous names like HSBC, BP and BT the most dynamic telecommunications group in the world, to name just three from the one hundred that make up the FTSE-100.<\/p>\n

A fund that invests in the FTSE-100 in the Legal & General FTSE-100 Tracker:<\/p>\n

[http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-uk100.jsp<\/a>]<\/p>\n

This fund has \u00a3280million<\/strong> invested in the UK’s top 100 firms.<\/p>\n

What is interesting to see, in the climate of 0.5% interest rates, by investing ones money in this fund, you get a yield of about 2.5%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top ten holdings are:<\/p>\n

HSBC Holdings 7.09% of the fund
\nBP 4.73% of the fund
\nRoyal Dutch Shell ‘A (Dutch listing)’ 4.34% of the fund
\nGlaxoSmithKline 4.09% of the fund
\nBritish American Tobacco 3.9% of the fund
\nAstraZeneca 3.45% of the fund
\nVodafone 3.25% of the fund
\nRoyal Dutch Shell ‘B’ 3.21% of the fund
\nDiageo 2.70% of the fund
\nLloyds Banking Group 2.46% of the fund<\/p>\n

What you see is that that the FTSE-100 is dominated by HSBC what makes up 7% of the index then the two Shell’s (one company, two classes of shares for Dutch tax reasons), and Shell is (4.34% + 3.21%) and then followed by BP that makes up 4.73%.<\/p>\n

These 9 companies make up 39.22% of the FTSE-100. Yes, 9 companies account for nearly 40% of all the index<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FTSE-100 is the flagship index of the largest UK Companies. Famous names like HSBC, BP and BT the most dynamic telecommunications group in the world, to name just three from the one hundred that make up the FTSE-100. A fund that invests in the FTSE-100 in the Legal & General FTSE-100 Tracker: [http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-uk100.jsp] This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}