Nigeria: How About Non-Financial Investment? (III)

17 March 2015

I don't want to invest in shares, bonds, bank deposits. What can I invest in? This is the question posed by some readers. The last two editions highlighted the reality of risk in every type of investment, and the fact that to invest your money, you either invest the money yourself in a business activity of your own, or you give (lend) the money to somebody who must use it to generate income, from where he can derive profit and return your money with interest.

The last edition also explained the difference between investing in financial instruments offered by financial institutions (banks etc) and non financial instrument. While there are rules and procedures guiding investment in shares, bonds and bank deposits, it is mostly not so with other typesw of investment.

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