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Defining Your Investment Goals: Cashflow or Wealth Accumulation?
What is the purpose of your investing? Is it cashflow, or is it wealth accumulation? This may depend on what part of your earning cycle you are in. If you are a new/young worker, your primary goal is to build up assets that can feed you down the road.