📚 Finance
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Investing means allocating capital today to earn future cash flows.
Key goals:
Investing differs from saving:
> Investing always involves uncertainty. No return is guaranteed.
Higher expected return usually requires higher risk.
Main risk types:
Your task is not to avoid risk, but to choose and price it intelligently.
1. Equities (stocks) – ownership, high risk/return
2. Bonds – lending, lower risk/return
3. Cash & equivalents – low risk, low return
4. Real estate – physical or listed
5. Alternative assets – commodities, hedge funds, private equity, crypto
Each reacts differently to growth, inflation, and interest rates.
Buying a share means owning a fraction of a company.
Key drivers of value:
Short term: prices move with sentiment.
Long term: prices track fundamentals.
A bond is a loan to a government or company.
Key features:
When interest rates rise, existing bond prices typically fall.
> “Safe” bonds still carry inflation and interest‑rate risk.
Real estate offers rent and potential appreciation.
Commodities (e.g., gold, oil): often hedge inflation, no cash flows.
Alternatives (private equity, hedge funds, venture capital):
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