Why your investments fail to grow to your expectations?
It’s a common problem; we invest with certain expectations, but, at maturity, we fail to achieve it. We wonder why does this happen and ask few questions to our-self – Have I over expected it? The option I selected was not correct? Did I fail to understand the risk involved with that investment? etc. We recognize that the actual growth of our investment has deviated from what we have expected. It's a common phenomenon if the expectations are not realistic. But when maturities are targeted to accomplish a liability, it becomes a concern. Let us discuss this in detail, why this happens – Our investments grow as a result of financial changes which are influenced by many factors. Predicting the implication of such factors on our investment growth is challenging. A better understanding can only help reduce the gap between expectation & the actual outcome. The gap goes wider on investing in high-risk options but you have higher growth potential for your investments. So ...