Saving and investing: different jobs, different instruments
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The same sum of money can serve different purposes, and the requirements those purposes place on an instrument are incompatible.
Saving
The job is to preserve the principal and keep it available. The requirements: minimal fluctuation, fast exit, predictability.
Suitable: a bank deposit within RUB 1.4m, short bonds, money market funds.
Return here is not the goal but a by-product. Trying to raise it violates the main requirement.
Investing
The job is to increase purchasing power over a long horizon. The requirements: a return above inflation, tolerance for fluctuation, time.
Suitable: equities, long bonds, funds — everything that fluctuates and is therefore unfit for the first job.
How to separate them
By horizon rather than by amount: The horizon: the one parameter you cannot change by deciding to. The reserve outside the market is separated first — A reserve outside the market: why it matters more than picking securities.
What they share
Inflation eats both. Savings sitting for years lose purchasing power just as reliably as a poor investment does — Real return: how much actually remained.
Related instruments
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