The first offering from the Fisher Investments On investing series is a comprehensive guide to the Energy sector. The book can benefit both new and seasoned investors, covering everything from Energy sector basics to specific industry insights to practical investing tactics, including common pitfalls to avoid.
The Fisher Investments on series is designed to provide individual investors, aspiring investment professionals, and students the tools necessary to understand and analyze investment opportunities--primarily for investing in global stocks. Each guide is an easily accessible primer to economic sectors, regions, or other components of the global stock market. While this guide specifically focuses on Energy, the basic investment methodology is applicable for analyzing any global sector, regardless of the current macroeconomic environment.
Following a top-down approach to investing, Fisher Investments on Energy can help you make more informed decisions within the Energy sector. It skillfully addresses how to approach your portfolio's Energy allocation, how to determine which Energy sub-industries have the potential to perform well, and how individual stocks can benefit in various environments. The global Energy sector is complex, covering multiple sub-industries and countries--each with unique characteristics. Using the framework found here, you can discover how to identify these differences, spot opportunities, and avoid major pitfalls.
Divided into three comprehensive parts--Getting Started, Energy Details, and Thinking Like a Portfolio Manager--Fisher Investments on Energy:
* Discusses Energy's drivers, including all the supply and demand components of its main drivers--oil and natural gas prices
* Takes you through the seven sub-industries within the global Energy sector and reveals how they operate
* Addresses the challenges of today's Energy sector, including peak oil and alternative energy
* Delves into top-down investment methodology as well as individual security analysis
* Outlines a five-step process to help differentiate firms in this field--designed to help you identify ones with the greatest probability of outperforming
* Provides investment strategies for a variety of market environments
Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Fisher Investments on Energy provides a framework for understanding this sector and its industries, to help you make better investment decisions--now and in the future. With this book as your guide, you'll gain a global perspective of the Energy sector in your quest to achieve consistent success in it.
