{"id":218,"date":"2013-08-12T07:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:11:46","slug":"fund-focus-global-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Fund Focus: Global Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having exposure to companies like Apple is of great benefit. A company that has changed the way we listen to music, we way with interact with mobile phones to the way we use computers from lap tops to tablets.<\/p>\n

Look at the share price.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/symbol\/aapl<\/a><\/p>\n

$454 = \u00a3292<\/strong> a share.<\/p>\n

Another way is to buy into a fund, a low cost fund that has all the famous technology names like Apple, Google, Microsoft is the Legal & General Global Techology Tracker<\/p>\n

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

A \u00a328million fund, grown by 60% in the past 5 years.<\/p>\n

Its top 10 holdings:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apple Technology\u00a0 12.78%<\/strong>
\nMicrosoft Corp.\u00a0 8.98%<\/strong>
\nGoogle\u00a0 8.21%<\/strong>
\nInternational Business Machines\u00a0 7.31%<\/strong>
\nCisco Systems\u00a0 4.43%<\/strong>
\nIntel Corp.\u00a0 4.16%<\/strong>
\nOracle Corp.\u00a0 3.86%<\/strong>
\nQualcomm Technology\u00a0 3.63%<\/strong>
\nTaiwan Semiconductor 3.04%<\/strong>
\nSAP AG 2.23%<\/strong><\/p>\n

These ten companies account for over 58%<\/strong> of the \u00a328 million<\/strong> fund.<\/p>\n

A low cost way to gain access to the most dynamic companies that change our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having exposure to companies like Apple is of great benefit. A company that has changed the way we listen to music, we way with interact with mobile phones to the way we use computers from lap tops to tablets. Look at the share price. http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/symbol\/aapl $454 = \u00a3292 a share. Another way is to buy […]<\/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-218","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}