Definitions: Saving and investing are often used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Saving is setting aside money you don’t spend now for emergencies or for a future purchase. Investing is buying assets such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds or real estate with the expectation that your investment will make real money for you.

Savings are actually meant for short term liquidity purposes as they don’t generate any meaningful returns while investment are long term and meant to generate effective returns for retirement purposes.

When you check your bank account daily, the money is there all the time as bank deposits have near zero or low volatility which serves its purposes for short term liquidity.

When you invest, be it in stocks, bonds, insurance or property, you will not be able to check the value daily and expect the same level of low volatility. Most of these are not meant to be drawn out on a short-term basis and thus
the daily pricing might not reflect their true valuation.