Financial services make up one of the economy's most important and influential sectors.
Financial services is a broad range of more specific activities such as banking, investing, and insurance.
Financial services are limited to the activity of financial services firms and their professionals, while financial products are the actual goods, accounts, or investments they provide.
Technology
Financial Services
Financial Services
The technology sector is comprised of businesses that sell goods and services in electronics, software, computers, artificial intelligence, and other industries related to information technology (IT).
Tech companies invest heavily in research and development and may undertake riskier projects with greater future potential.
Tech companies run social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Companies rely on the technology sector to help them grow and thrive.
The technology sector is often one of the most attractive growth investments in an economy.
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
Natural resources such as iron, coal, or gold are the basis of all production.
Market participants can invest in natural resources via anything that has been mined or collected in raw form.
Natural resource investing appeals due to the impact of rising incomes, global infrastructure repair, political buying, and the store of value, especially metals.
Ways to invest include buying directly, trading in futures and options, buying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds, and buying individual stocks, or investing directly in mines and private mining companies.
Infrastructure
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
Infrastructure are the basic systems that undergird the structure of the economy.
Examples of infrastructure include transportation facilities, telecommunications networks, and water supplies.
Large scale infrastructure is usually produced by the public sector or publicly regulated monopolies
Infrastructure can often be produced on a smaller scale by private firms or through local collective action.
Infrastructure investment tends to be less volatile than some other asset classes and is sometimes sought as an investment.
Healthcare
Healthcare
Healthcare
The healthcare sector consists of all businesses involved in the provision and coordination of medical and related goods and services.
This sector enjoys some significant advantages in the U.S. but is also beset with a several factors that present potential economic problems.
The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for an outsized share of spending relative to health outcomes, which has led to uncertainties around politically driven reform of the industry.
Healthcare in other parts of the World each have their own challenges and investment requirements.
Education
Healthcare
Healthcare
The education industry can be described as the collection of organizations and businesses that provide products and services aimed at enhancing the quality of education in society. The industry is defined by four main categories:
Schools/ Service Providers: – Providing Elementary and Secondary Education, Alternative/Special Education Services, Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, and Proprietary Schools.
Supplemental Education Service Providers: Providing Higher Education, Vocational Education, Learning Centers, Tutoring Services and Assessment Services.
Educational Products & Services Sector: Production and supply of educational material and products including Educational Products, Publishing, and Supplemental Products.
Education Support Services Sector: – Providing support and ancillary services to the education industry including Education Consultants, Education Information and Research, Education Investment Services, Education Policy Specialists, and Technology Services.
Energy
Emerging Markets
Emerging Markets
The energy sector includes corporations that primarily are in the business of producing or supplying energy such as fossil fuels or renewables.
The energy sector has been an important driver of industrial growth over the past century, providing fuel to power the rest of the economy.
Companies in the energy industry are classified based on how the energy is sourced such as non-renewables or fossil fuels and renewables such as solar.
Emerging Markets
Emerging Markets
Emerging Markets
An emerging market economy is an economy that is in the process of becoming a developed economy.
Emerging market economies typically feature a unified currency, stock market, and backing system, and are in the process of industrializing.
Emerging market economies can offer greater returns to investors due to rapid growth, but also offer greater exposure to some inherent risks due to their status.
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