{"id":1230,"date":"2015-08-17T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2015-08-17T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:14:59","slug":"international-index-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"International Index Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting low cost exposure to international markets has never been simpler.<\/p>\n<p>Investors want access to sectors such as:-<br \/>\nFinancials, Consumer Goods, Industrials, Healthcare, Technology, Consumer Services, Oil and Gas, Basic Materials, Telecommunications (<strong>shares in world class players like BT Group PLC<\/strong>) Property and Utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Also with this, investors want exposure to countries such as:-<br \/>\nThe United States, Japan, Switzerland, Germany Canada, France, Australia, South Korea and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>These needs can be easily captured in ONE fund:<\/p>\n<p>The Legal and General International Index Fund.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-internationalindex.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-internationalindex.jsp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This fund gives exposure to these markets by tracking the performance of the FTSE World ex UK Index.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a3587 million fund. Its top 10 holdings are:-<\/p>\n<p>Apple 2.12% of the fund<br \/>\nExxon Mobil Corp 1.03% of the fund<br \/>\nMicrosoft Corp 0.95% of the fund<br \/>\nWells Fargo &amp; Co 0.85% of the fund<br \/>\nJohnson &amp; Johnson 0.79% of the fund<br \/>\nGeneral Electric Co 0.79% of the fund<br \/>\nJPMorgan Chase &amp; Co 0.74% of the fund<br \/>\nNestle S.A. 0.68% of the fund<br \/>\nNovartis AG0.65% of the fund<br \/>\nProcter &amp; Gamble Co 0.63% of the fund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting low cost exposure to international markets has never been simpler. Investors want access to sectors such as:- Financials, Consumer Goods, Industrials, Healthcare, Technology, Consumer Services, Oil and Gas, Basic Materials, Telecommunications (shares in world class players like BT Group PLC) Property and Utilities. Also with this, investors want exposure to countries such as:- The [&hellip;]<\/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-1230","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\/1230","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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}