1} Imagine you inherited $50,000 and you want to invest it to meet two nancial goals; (a} to save for your wedding. which you plan to have in two years. (bl to save for your retirement a few decades from now. How would you invest your money? i would start off with investing all my money in the stock market. Even though it has more risks there is a quicker return as long as the market does not fail. But I would only have the money just in stocks for a period of time, maybe until my wedding, then I would be a little more responsible and go with half stock market and half bonds. Because I will not need the money for a while and it can take it's time and bonds are a safer way to go