Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index

  

Ooh, Titans! Let's not clash with these guys.

Huge, buheeeeemoth companies. A hundred thousand employees or more. Regulators sniffing around everywhere. Big. Slow. Dumb. Powerful. Think: Brontosaurus. That's what this index represents.

Why would someone want to buy it? Eh. They want a kind of safe-ish investment that pays a dividend and just kind of plunks along. And yes, most Titan companies pay a divvy. They're soooo profitable, they barely know what else to do with the dough...they'll have already bought all the corporate jets with their own logo on the side that they can handle, so like...why not?

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