Short term and long term growth

You will invest for a different reason to many other people, but also a similar reason to many other people. And when you choose the way in which you wish to invest, it will impact most likely, or at the very least influence, where the growth in your investments is going to come from.

For instance, if you take a look at investing in shares: those who are interested in the long term, who will simply lock away the money to all intents and purposes for five to ten years and then re-evaluate: they wil not be checking the share prices avidly on a daily basis, and if there are short term rises or falls in the price of the share, no great shakes. They will be investing for the dividends, and it will be these that are going to give them the return on the investment (although to be clear they would very much welcome a rise in share price too, but at least if it doesn't go down then that percentage dividend shows at least some return on investment overall).

Contrast this with those who are much more active, and very interested in short term gains. They will be looking at data much more regularly and be a much more active participant. They may even day trade shares to take advantage of wild movements in share prices over the course of a day, trying to react quickly perhaps when there is surprisingly good, or bad news, out there about a particular company.

Either way, investing in shares comes with risk and therefore financial experts always recommend to clients that they only invest money that they could actually afford to lose if the worst came to the worst, say, and the company went bust.

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