{"id":466,"date":"2014-02-21T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=466"},"modified":"2014-02-21T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:22:45","slug":"global-100-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Global 100 Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest 100 companies in the world sit in the Standard and Poor\u2019s (S&amp;P) Global 100 Index<\/p>\n<p>One can get access to these 100 companies via the <strong>Legal &amp; General Global 100 Index Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Legal &amp; General Global 100 Index\" href=\"http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-global100.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-global100.jsp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This fund simply invests in the largest 100 multi-national blue-chip companies on the global stock markets<\/p>\n<p>3M Company<br \/>\nABB Ltd<br \/>\nAegon<br \/>\nAllianz AG<br \/>\n<strong>Anglo American plc<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AstraZeneca<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aviva<\/strong><br \/>\nAXA<br \/>\nBanco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.<br \/>\nBanco Santander, S.A.<br \/>\n<strong>Barclays<\/strong><br \/>\nBASF AG<br \/>\nBayer AG<br \/>\n<strong>BHP Billiton Limited<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BP plc<\/strong><br \/>\nBridgestone Corp.<br \/>\nBristol-Myers Squibb<br \/>\nCanon Inc.<br \/>\nCarrefour SA<br \/>\nCaterpillar Inc.<br \/>\nChevron Corp.<br \/>\nCitigroup Inc.<br \/>\nCoca-Cola Co.<br \/>\nColgate-Palmolive<br \/>\nCompagnie de Saint-Gobain<br \/>\nCredit Suisse Group<br \/>\nDaimler AG<br \/>\nDell Inc.<br \/>\nDeutsche Bank AG<br \/>\nDeutsche Telekom AG<br \/>\nDiageo<br \/>\nDow Chemical<br \/>\nDuPont (E.I.)<br \/>\nE.ON AG<br \/>\nEMC Corporation<br \/>\nLM Ericsson Telephone Co. &#8211; 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General Global 100 Index Fund [http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-global100.jsp] This fund simply invests in the largest 100 multi-national blue-chip companies on the global stock markets 3M Company ABB Ltd [&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-466","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\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}