{"id":2890,"date":"2019-02-13T03:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T03:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:36:36","slug":"why-index-funds-are-awesome-e-g-the-us-sp-500-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Why Index Funds are awesome: e.g. The US S&#038;P 500 Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Index funds are passive investment vehicles, they track the whole index.<\/p>\n<p>e.g. $10,000 (a lot of money) invested in the US Stockmarket, the Standard &amp; Poors 500 Index in 1942.<\/p>\n<p>today, that $10,000 investment, on 11th March 1942 (the date that Warren Buffett bought his first stock) would be worth&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>$51,000,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, $10,000 dollars turned into <strong>$51 MILLION dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Index funds are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Warren Buffett: Buying And Holding Index Funds Has Worked | CNBC\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10QoUi2PmNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index funds are passive investment vehicles, they track the whole index. e.g. $10,000 (a lot of money) invested in the US Stockmarket, the Standard &amp; Poors 500 Index in 1942. today, that $10,000 investment, on 11th March 1942 (the date that Warren Buffett bought his first stock) would be worth&#8230;.. $51,000,000 Yes, $10,000 dollars turned [&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-2890","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\/2890","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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}