{"id":1910,"date":"2016-12-21T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:16:14","slug":"the-dow-jones-the-power-of-the-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"The Dow Jones: The Power of The Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if one invested in a tracker fund that tracked the Dow Jones Industrial Index, 20 years ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1911\" src=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dow-1996jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow.1996jpg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dow 30 was at <strong>9, 814. <\/strong>In December 1996<\/p>\n<p>Now if one held that fund, today, 20 years on :-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1912\" src=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dow2016\" width=\"492\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dow2016.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The index is at <strong>19, 843 <\/strong>in December 2016<\/p>\n<p>The index has more than doubled in 20 years. With hindsight it was a one way bet. Your money has more than doubled, with dividends from these companies in the index. Praise to Jack Bogle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if one invested in a tracker fund that tracked the Dow Jones Industrial Index, 20 years ago: The Dow 30 was at 9, 814. In December 1996 Now if one held that fund, today, 20 years on :- &nbsp; The index is at 19, 843 in December 2016 The index has more than doubled [&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-1910","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\/1910","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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}