Investment Alert

The investment opportunities are not limited. In fact, they are increasing on a daily basis, thus giving you an extensive range of investments that you can benefit from; both long term and short term investments. However, this may confuse you and leave you bewildered about investing your hard earned savings. This could also be one of the reasons why many hesitate to invest. But you should know that investing your money will only benefit you in the long run.

Asset Classes...

Asset classes mean the options that you can invest in. Broadly speaking, there are four main asset classes that you can invest in; Cash, Property, Bonds or Fixed Interest, and Shares. Below is a small overview on what they are, their working, and the returns that you can expect from them.


Cash

They are short-term money market instruments that are usually supported or guaranteed by large companies or the Federal/State governments. These investments can be very easily converted in to cash, usually remain fairly stable in price and the returns are in the form of interest that are not of a huge amount and lower than the riskier shares and bonds. The examples that can be given for these investments are cash managements trusts, bank bills, term deposits, and some other cash managed funds.


Bonds or Fixed Interest

Bonds or fixed interest are such securities that let the large companies, governments, and semi-governments borrow money. It means that when investing in bonds you will be actually lending a certain amount of money to the one who issues bonds. In most cases, the one who issues bonds decides to repay their loans on a pre-determined date and make the interest payments regularly till that date. This is the reason why bonds are often known as fixed income investments. Bonds are riskier than cash investments because when the interest rates rises, the prices of the bond falls and vice versa.


Property

The property investment can be in the form of an owner-occupier or just a straight-forward investment, which could include a house, an apartment, a shop, an office, or land. The additional costs involved while purchasing of property are stamp duty, renovations, legal costs, interest payments, repairs, and mortgage costs. Majority of the people buy property in such a way that most part of the purchase price is financed with the help of a bank loan. The drawback here is that the price of the property can decrease as per the market rates. Your money is tied up till you can find a buyer, thus making it difficult to liquidate your money.


Shares

Shares mean that you will have part ownership or equity in a public corporation. If the company that you have bought your shares in does well, then you will also benefit from the profits that they make. However, vice versa is also true, the company runs in to a loss, so does the value of your investments. Shares are the riskiest of the lot as they fluctuate depending on the market but they also offer higher returns than any of the other investments.


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