Savings vs Investing

Money you have set aside in a secure place to use for future purchases

• Invest

• Savings

• Return

Return

• The profit, or loss, on an investment

• Goals that can take a short time, or up to 5 years, to reach

• To commit money to earn a financial return

To commit money to earn a financial return

• Investment

• Savings

• Invest

Something you spend your money on that you expect will earn a financial return

• return

• savings

• investment

Goals that can take a short time, or up to 5 years, to reach

• Short-term goal

• long-term goal

• savings

The profit, or loss, on an investment

• short-term goal

• return

• invest

Invest

• Something you spend your money on that you expect will earn a financial return

• To commit money to earn a financial return

• Money you have set aside in a secure place to use for future purchases

Goals that can take more than 5 years to achieve

• invest

• investment

• Long-term goal

Savings

• To commit money to earn a financial return

• Something you spend your money on that you expect will earn a financial return

• Money you have set aside in a secure place to use for future purchases

Investment

• The profit, or loss, on an investment

• Something you spend your money on that you expect will earn a financial return

• To commit money to earn a financial return