Back in the good ol’ days, we just traded everything. Barter this, barter that. But then along came money, as a representation of the barter value that was held in a beaver pelt and an ounce of gold and 14 eyes of newt. Cue the Financial Sector Era.
A broad-based infrastructure was needed to service, police, manage, and allocate the money that represented the value of those beaver pelts. And today with a deci-trillion dollar global economy (and Mars' MDP coming soon to a planet near you), we have banks and brokerages, insurance companies, accounting behemoths, and all kinds of corporations that service everything finance, everything money, everything representative of the value of a beaver pelt.
That's the Financial Sector. Live it; love it; pray to it, Earthlings.
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right Well star wars and star trek captains are all
these barking about setting coordinates for sector for stat or
whatever they say That means urgent in the future right
We'll hear space here's sector four and it's Ah well
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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