SAVINGS VERSUS INVESTMENT

It is common to use the terms Savings and Investment interchangeably. However, they are not one and the same. Saving is just the difference between money earned and money spent. Investment is the current commitment of savings with an expectation of receiving a higher amount of committed savings. Investment involves some specific time period. It is the process of making the savings work to generate return.

Hence when people are saving, they use the short-term deposits/short-term securities which are highly liquid assets- on the other hand when people are investing, they commit funds to real assets, capital market securities such as stocks and bonds, and other long-term commitments that may not be as liquid as short-term assets.

The objectives of savers and investors are different. Savers tend to accumulate funds to address short-term goals, whereas investors have longer-term goals, such as building retirement corpus or funding children's college education expenses. Those who save funds have the choice of investing. Hence, every investor is a saver but not vice versa.

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