{"id":6289,"date":"2025-10-03T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","slug":"the-distortion-of-the-sp100-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6289","title":{"rendered":"The Distortion of the S&amp;P100 Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The objective of the Fund is to track the performance of the S&amp;P Global 100 Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However on close analysis, the technology titans at the top distort the index, as you see in the image below that the 3 technology companies:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nvidia<\/strong> 12.8 % of the fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Microsoft<\/strong> 11.3 % of the fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apple<\/strong> 10.4 % of the fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2211 [Nvidia <strong>12.8%<\/strong>] + [Microsoft <strong>11.3%<\/strong>] +[Apple <strong>10.4%<\/strong>] = <strong>34.5%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3 companies of Nvidia, Microsoft &amp; Apple account for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">over<\/span> <strong>ONE THIRD<\/strong> of the index that is made up of 106 companies. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3 companies account for 34.5%<\/span><\/strong> of the value of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the entire fund<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8.png 960w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8-768x706.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8-624x573.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Legal &amp; General Investment Management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of the Fund is to track the performance of the S&amp;P Global 100 Index However on close analysis, the technology titans at the top distort the index, as you see in the image below that the 3 technology companies:- Nvidia 12.8 % of the fund Microsoft 11.3 % of the fund Apple 10.4 [&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-6289","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\/6289","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=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}