{"id":266,"date":"2013-09-09T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=266"},"modified":"2013-09-09T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:34:13","slug":"fund-focus-life-sciences-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Fund Focus: Life Sciences & Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

The life sciences sector of the economy offers to bring better healthcare, quality of life and a better understanding of diseases that affect us all.<\/p>\n

Some very high tech companies are working in this area, take mySymptoms<\/strong> from Skygazerlabs<\/strong>,\u00a0[www.skygazerlabs.com<\/a>] a privately held business, that has some very clever technology.<\/p>\n

One can get access to quoted (listed) Bio Tech and Pharma companies with investment funds like the Legal & General Global Health and Pharmaceuticals Index Trust<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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

The top 10 holdings in the fund portfolio are:<\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson (US)
\nPfizer (US)
\nNovartis (Switzerland)
\nRoche (Switzerland)
\nMerck & Company (US)
\nSanofi (France)
\nGlaxoSmithKline (UK)
\nNovo Nordisk (Denmark)
\nAmgen (US)
\nAstraZeneca (UK)<\/p>\n

These represent almost 50%<\/strong> of the Trust by market value and consist of the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.<\/p>\n

A \u00a363,952,194<\/strong> fund (\u00a363.9 million<\/strong>) that gives access to the one of the most critical sectors of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The life sciences sector of the economy offers to bring better healthcare, quality of life and a better understanding of diseases that affect us all. Some very high tech companies are working in this area, take mySymptoms from Skygazerlabs,\u00a0[www.skygazerlabs.com] a privately held business, that has some very clever technology. One can get access to quoted […]<\/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-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}