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STRATEGY: Time to 'HODL' Energy stocksEnergy is the best performing S&P 500 sector YTD, rising ~42%, easily trouncing the +12% for the S&P 500 and the +6% gain of the NASDAQ 100.  And one would think that institutional investors are Overweight Energy and enthusiastic to boot.  This is not the case.In fact, over the past 9 months, when we made Energy a focus of our research efforts, the response has been mostly blasé.  This is something that our entire research team can confirm, and even Brian Rauscher, our Head of Global Strategy, has noted this in many of his comments. Among the multitude of reasons for the skepticism:- The world is moving away from oil- Energy has been a widow maker for the past 13 years- Energy companies are terrible allocators of capital- Oil is not ESG friendly- Energy at 3% weight is less important than Tesla or Apple- Energy is boring, and Millennials and GenZ don't care- Lol, who wants to own a loser- Energy is a dirty wordSo you get the picture. In fact, institutional investor feedback on Energy reminds me of the pushback we got on Bitcoin in 2017.  Gra...

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