The four factors include safety and risk, investment income, investment growth, and investment liquidity. Your choice of investments should be based on your personal financial goals, your willingness to assume risk, your age, and the amount of time you have for your investments to work for you.

Lets imagine that you do have funds (it doesn't matter how much) to invest. (I realize that some of you may not be able to consider this possibility now, but let's dream.) Assume you must choose an investment that will help you obtain your investment goals.

Post a discussion message and rank the following investment options: common stocks, preferred stocks, corporate bonds, government bonds, mutual funds, and real estate. Use 1 for low to 6 for high and justify your choice for your investment portfolio. For instance, are you interested in safety/risk, income, growth, and/or liquidity? How does your age affect your decision? How does the time factor affect your decision? As a part of this discussion, use the Suze Orman method (Your Age - 21) to determine the percentage of your investments that should be invested in growth investments. Report these findings.