What are the main differences between savings and investments?
There is a general distinction between savings and investments:

Savings - money you might need to get at quickly or money you are setting aside for a purchase or expense that you know will come up fairly soon (like a holiday or a deposit on a house). For every £1 you save you will always get a £1 back (short of a bank or building society collapse).

Investments are really for the longer-term - money you can afford to tie up for five years or more.
Investments are not guaranteed to return your money in full and are usually considered as suitable for money that you can put aside for five years or longer.

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(FSA). The FSA does not regulate some forms of Mortgage, Inheritance Tax Planning, Credit
Cards, Personal Loans, Deposit Accounts & Insurance. If you are submitting an online request,
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