{"id":4034,"date":"2021-07-15T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:42:32","slug":"40-years-of-the-sp-500-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4034","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of the S&#038;P 500 Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A good bench mark to follow is the the S&amp;P 500 Index. This is the index by Standard and   Poors&#8217;, of America&#8217;s 500 largest corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 1981 (Just 40 years ago) the index as show below&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981.png 847w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500-Jul1981-624x402.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>was at 130 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward 40 years from then, to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021.png 835w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SP500Jun2021-624x420.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The index is at 4297 points. <br>Imagine buying an S&amp;P Index fund in 1981, when it was at 130 points&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good bench mark to follow is the the S&amp;P 500 Index. This is the index by Standard and Poors&#8217;, of America&#8217;s 500 largest corporations. In July 1981 (Just 40 years ago) the index as show below&#8230;. was at 130 points. Fast forward 40 years from then, to now. The index is at 4297 points. [&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-4034","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\/4034","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=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}