The industry devoted to the production and supply of energy. It includes things like oil and natural gas producers, refiners, nuclear power companies, coal miners, wind farms, underwater algae compost reactors, and sweatshops where third-world children turn hand cranks to activate palm-leaf fans for rich tourists.
Typically, when we talk about sectors, we're talking specifically about the stock market. Since these companies are essentially competitors in providing us power, their shares get tracked together as the "energy sector."
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kind of a slice of space Ok now come back
to earth gently And as it applies to mutual funds
it's kind of the same notion that is A sector
comprises a particular discipline of investing Like think of it
like a slice of the s and p five hundred
Like one sector of the economy is banking Another is
tech Another is telecommunications And then there's oil and transport
And consumer durables in each of these areas has hundreds
of ways in which investors can invest in that particular
sector That is there are index funds that invest in
it Yeah Mutual funds hedge funds private equity funds Even
venture capital funds Each of whom has a particular discipline
or focus on lee in one sector More less so
why would you want to sector fund Well if you
believe that oil was about tohave an explosion in demand
the good kind of explosion Then you'd want to beam
or exposed to it financially at least to its upside
Then say you would technology which you feel has gotten
too expensive in the markets And its best days are
behind it It's A little like putting several of your
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