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Investment

Why Invest ?

We are likely to live longer healthier lives. More and more of us are making our own plans for education, health care, retirement and a better more comfortable lifestyle. The old reliable deposit account might do nicely for your short term savings, but when is comes to providing for these new demands, deposit accounts simply do not deliver. They haven't generated wealth in the past and they won't in the future. Investing your money sensibly can provide you with security for the future as well as enabling you to realise some of your dreams.

If you want to make a good return on your money and you are willing to take a risk, real assets can be a good way of seeing your money grow.

The basic building blocks of all investments

1. Cash
2. Fixed interest securities
3. Property
4. Shares

The ranking from 1 to 4 is based on long term expected returns: shares are expected to give better returns than property, which will give better returns than fixed interest securities, which in turn will do better than cash. The ranking also measures risk: cash will fluctuate least, shares will fluctuate most. Risk in this sense means volatility, or the degree to which values go up and down.

In the investment markets, the assets of property and shares are called "real assets". Real is a term that means value after inflation is taken into account. This means that their value will tend to grow more than inflation.

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