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Plain-English definitions for the terms you'll encounter on your financial journey.

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DCF📈 Investing

Discounted Cash Flow is a method used to estimate the value of an investment today based on how much money it is expected to generate in the future. It works like calculating how much a tree is worth now based on the total value of all the fruit it will produce over the next ten years, adjusting for the fact that money is worth more now than later.