Richard Lightbound on investing in the 'daunting' tech sector

Investors have long had a love/hate relationship with technology stocks - and for good reason.

The history of the sector may make any investor who remembers the dot-com bubble, 2008 and 2011 wary.  Tech stocks slump amid fears of regulatory clampdown Even in 2017, while Apple (+48.5%) and Facebook (+53%) delivered relative riches, other technology stocks such as Frontier Communications (-85.98%) and Pandora (-64%) were on the opposite end of the scale.  Investing in technology can be particularly daunting because, unlike industries such as automotives or retail where it is easy to understand what you are buying, technology stocks are far less tangible. And yet investors a...