{"id":65,"date":"2013-05-29T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T09:34:25","slug":"technology-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Technology Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death of Steve Jobs was a tragic loss to the world, but also to the technology sector. Much has been written about this brilliant man, a clever business man with vision, passion and drive, partnering with a smart engineer like Steve Wozniak to create brilliant technology that was user friendly, but also sophisticated.<\/p>\n

[http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/steve-jobs-apple-cofounder-hailed-as-one-of-the-most-important-pioneers-of-the-modern-computing-age-2366680.html]<\/p>\n

What is just incredible is the share price growth of Apple. Between 1997 and 2011, the stock as grown by 9000%. In that same period, the share price of the rival Hewlett Packard has shrunk by 48%. Thus technology investment has risks and rewards.
\nThus investing \u00a3100 in 1997 in Hewlett Packard would have been pretty tough to swallow, with that \u00a3100 being worth \u00a352 today. Hmmmmm, a grim investment return. Thus diversification into a technology funds is a good way to get exposure into the technology sector, some great funds with great holdings are easily accessible to retail investors.<\/p>\n

(http:\/\/i.legalandgeneral.com\/consumer\/investments\/products-and-funds\/index-tracker\/investments-productsandfunds-indextracker-fund-globaltech.jsp)The<\/a> Legal & General Technology Index Fund, 13% of this \u00a320m fund is in Apple !!!<\/p>\n

[http:\/\/www.polarcapitaltechnologytrust.co.uk\/]
\nPolar Capital Technology Investment Trust, 10.2% of this \u00a3413m fund in Apple and 4.2% in Google.<\/p>\n

[http:\/\/www.rcm.com\/investmenttrusts\/investment_rcm.php]
\nRCM Technology Trust 4% of this \u00a380m fund is in Apple.<\/p>\n

[http:\/\/www.henderson.com\/sites\/henderson\/uk_pi\/FundCentre\/ProductDetail.aspx?xfid=8]The Henderson Global Technology fund, 9.8% of this \u00a3340m fund is in Apple.<\/p>\n

As you can see, Apple features very high in technology funds, as today when one thinks of a technology pioneer and the bell weather of the sector, Apple is that company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death of Steve Jobs was a tragic loss to the world, but also to the technology sector. Much has been written about this brilliant man, a clever business man with vision, passion and drive, partnering with a smart engineer like Steve Wozniak to create brilliant technology that was user friendly, but also sophisticated. [http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/steve-jobs-apple-cofounder-hailed-as-one-of-the-most-important-pioneers-of-the-modern-computing-age-2366680.html] […]<\/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-65","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\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}