What is the importance of making short term and long term financial decisions?
When making financial decisions it is important to look at your time horizon. Certain investments may be great in the long term but bad for a short term investment. An example of this might be a very volatile investment that has large fluctuations in value. While over the long term this may be a good investment…..short term it may not. If you need funds to pay for a new house or your children’s education and the investment has dropped dramatically in value at the time you need the funds this would be a bad situation to be in. It is always good to have enough liquidity to cover any need for funds on a short tem basis while maintaing other investments that you plan to hold over a longer time period.
