{"id":382,"date":"2013-11-25T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=382"},"modified":"2013-11-25T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T08:04:10","slug":"the-worlds-largest-investment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest investment fund."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund<\/strong><\/em>, is the largest single investment fund.<br \/>\nWith assets of \u00a3178,592 Million (<strong>\u00a3178 Billion<\/strong>) =[<strong>US$ 287.68 Billion<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The top ten holdings account for 14.5% of the fund = \u00a325.89 Billion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 Apple Inc.<br \/>\n2 Exxon Mobil Corp.<br \/>\n3 Google Inc.<br \/>\n4 General Electric Co.<br \/>\n5 Microsoft Corp.<br \/>\n6 Johnson &amp; Johnson<br \/>\n7 Chevron Corp.<br \/>\n8 Wells Fargo &amp; Co.<br \/>\n9 Procter &amp; Gamble Co.<br \/>\n10 Berkshire Hathaway Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Not entirely suprising the fund invests in some of the worlds largest companies, it is tracking the global stock market, that is of course dominated by the largest corporates in the world.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Fund Quote and Fundamentals\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VTSMX\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VTSMX<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>this fund overtook the famous Pimco Total Return Bond Fund, which for the past years was the largest investment fund, run by Bill Gross.<br \/>\nThe Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund is run by computer, as it is an index tracker, thus Vanguard are able to offer low charges on the fund to investors, and not pay high fees for money managers.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Vanguard Website on The Fund\" href=\"https:\/\/personal.vanguard.com\/us\/funds\/snapshot?FundId=0085&amp;FundIntExt=INT#tab=0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/personal.vanguard.com\/us\/funds\/snapshot?FundId=0085&amp;FundIntExt=INT#tab=0<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, is the largest single investment fund. With assets of \u00a3178,592 Million (\u00a3178 Billion) =[US$ 287.68 Billion] The top ten holdings account for 14.5% of the fund = \u00a325.89 Billion 1 Apple Inc. 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. 3 Google Inc. 4 General Electric Co. 5 Microsoft Corp. 6 Johnson [&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-382","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\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}