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Stocks and bonds are two powerful ways to grow your money. They are something that can help everyone reach their finacial goals.

So, what are bonds and stocks? These are two different kinds of securities that allow you to get a somewhat steady growth on your money.

Stocks are basically portions of a company. By investing into a companies stock you become a partial owner of the company. As the company grows and makes money your shares of stock should also increase and if you have dividend paying stocks you receive income as the company makes money. The idea is to buy stock in strong companies that are unlikely to fail and like to grow then sell it for a profit in the future.

Bonds are different. investing into bonds is also called investing into debt. Basically when you get into a bond you are loaning money out to the individual company. In exchange for your contribution you recieve a nice cash flow of interest payments. Also when the bond matures the company will have to buy to back, hopefully it has increased so you could make money that way as well. The idea is to get into a bond, receive the interest payments and hopefully profit when the company buys the bond back.

So which strategy is better? If you take a close look at Stocks and Bond they both have their advantages and disadvantages.

Bonds are usually considered to be pretty safe. If a company owes you money they must pay you back. As long as the company still exist you will pretty much recieve interest payments. The disadvantage of this is that you are likely to not make that much. Safer investments tend to pay poorer returns.

Stocks on the other hand have the potential to give off much higher returns, but they are also considered riskier and more volatile then bonds.

Each is a little different and each individual investor can decide which one seems like a better investment for them or you can take the generally recommended approach and diversify your money across both assets.