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Year 10 Commerce Assessment Task 1 - 2006 INVESTING As an alternative to the insignificant returns from the typically low interest accrual in savings accounts, there are many financial and social reasons for people to be more disposed to investing their capital in other ways despite the inherent element of risk. Not only are saving account interest rates very low, on average 2.81% per annum for the average income earner, but equivalent to other 'risk-free' investments, they do not satisfy substantial short-term gains. By investing in the highly volatile share or property market, however, it is possible to generate an extensive positive return over only a short period of three to four years. For example, those people investing in the property market from June 1991 to June 2001 would have generated more than $30,000 from just $10,000. Essentially, many people realise that the risk of negative returns is...

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