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Inversion – Morgue File
Establishing a risk profile to find out how much you’re willing to lose if the investment does not generate income helps you choose between different types of investment.
Sometimes companies have liquid assets that do not need to develop their activities temporarily or commercial production. Companies need to have a certain amount in cash or liquid in banks and to help meet the payments shown in the development of normal activity. But keeping excess liquid availability is not advisable because it can generate low or no performance for the company.
Investment Types
When a company decides to change its availability liquid by placing the resources available in financial assets that can provide better performance. All these assets is called short-term investments or short-term financial investment. The maturity of these investments should not exceed three months and less than one year.
The short-term investments are cash loans that firms make in order to get a performance increase the capital of the company. In contrast, long-term investments are not in cash but are composed of assets. Another difference between short-term investments and long-term investments, is that the long term pose a higher risk in the market by fluctuating prices of stocks whose price is unpredictable.