Posted on 07/03/2012 1:18:55 AM PDT by servantoftheservant
Would appreciate advice from all investment minded Freepers! I've recently come into $100K, and am at a loss as to how to invest it.
The stock market seems to be a lottery of policy rather than market forces. Will there be inflation or deflation?
Buy real estate while it's low? Sink it into Precious Metals? Emergency supplies?
I'm paralyzed, but need to do something with it. Would love to hear what the resourceful people here would do. Thanks for all your ideas!!
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Take out a subscription to Stansberry. They give excellent advice.
Buy dividend-yielding stocks in world-class companies such as Exxon, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft (seriously), Hershey, Coca-Cola.
Buy silver in physical, hold-it-in-your-hand form. 50 kg of .999 pure bullion bars would be a good start. Tell only one person (that you trust with your life) where you are storing it.
Consider silver and gold royalty companies and senior miners. Avoid junior miners for the next six months - too many of them have serious cash issues.
Hope this is helpful
For example (and I use this only as an example; I'm not an investment advisor but have done well using my own approach over the years):
$10,000 in a short-term savings account or money market fund.
$10,000 in a U.S. government bond fund.
$10,000 in a tax-exempt municipal bond fund.
$10,000 in a foreign bond fund.
$10,000 in an S&P 500 index fund.
$10,000 in a moderately aggressive U.S. stock fund.
$10,000 in a very aggressive U.S. stock fund.
$10,000 in a foreign stock fund.
$10,000 in a gold or other precious metals fund.
$10,000 in a real estate investment trust.
If you can afford to invest an additional $1,000 per month, add $100 every month to each of these. Some will do well, others will not, but over time this should give you some growth while at the same time providing some protection by spreading your money out among many different types of investments. At the end of every year, you should sit down and see how each investment performed and move money from one to the other to re-balance your investments if you think it's necessary.
Dear Servant,
I have a 100 kids and my latest wife ran off with the UPS man a couple days ago. Could you send me a couple bucks? Say $99,999 or so? Please remit to P.O. Box.......
Desparately seeking cold hard cashola.
Diddly
Land that grows food.
If I had that money, I’d buy some property in a college town and buy myself an income (obviously, make sure you have insurance in case they wreck the place with their stupid drunken antics).
You have mail.
I would probably avoid the stock market. I invested in the stock market back in 1996 and have been in it ever since.....made money hand over fist until late 1999.......it’s been soft or completely in the tank ever since.
My own meager savings adds up to about that amount and I too would like to know how to get the most out of it.
Property is probably the best investment , but at todays prices you cannot buy enough property with $100,000 dollars to place a Jiffy John on.
Buying CD’s at the banks is the safest way, but they don’t pay squat, and when hyper inflation hits your dollars will turn to crap.
Perhaps you could buy up tax sales when they are auctioned off, they have a 6% interest rate on them if they are paid back, and you get the land if they don’t, but $100,000 still won’t buy you much there either.
In answer, I don’t have an answer.It appears no one else here has any good ideas either. $100,000 dollars is a nice piece of change, but it is too much to just toss away and not enough to do anything with.
Key thing is to get guns at a low-as-possible price, keep them clean and just wait. They have always gotten an excellent rate of return.
This is the wrong place to ask ,, but quite honestly you will have a VERY difficult time finding anyone objective and typical investment advisors are worthless as they don’t see the danger in investing in todays climate... in fact SEC rules handcuff most of them into the same old advice that could lose you a large amount of money in this environment..
I was a stockbroker for many years and made my clients ,, ALL MY CLIENTS , good returns .. I can tell you there are always good investments available but right now I can’t name a single area that isn’t gamed by the big players and isn’t ready to collapse. Don’t get cute and put all your money in paper betting on the collapse either ,, how will you collect? Maybe you can find short term money makers ... I would be shorting alternative energy HARD...
I would buy REAL items ,, 10 acres , goats and cows ,, silver and gold... plant fruit trees...
GOOD LUCK
when i make investments in mutual funds, i always check the 10 to 15 year return history. If you can get a historical return of 9.5 to 12.5%, you will double your money in 7 years..
I weathered the downturn fairly well using this strategy. Go for the long term, and check out where you are putting your money.
In my opinion, you really shouldn't be investing anything until you are familiar with few foundation terms and phrases like stock, bond, money market fund, EFT, mutual fund, load fund, no-load fund, index fund, management fees and expenses, risk tolerance, asset allocation, dollar cost averaging, etc.
The fact that you are asking investment advice from total strangers and total strangers are giving you "investment advice" without knowing your age, marital status, number of dependents, other investments, net worth, employment status, existing retirement plans, short and long terms financial needs, debt load, etc., shows how little you and most importantly, how little they know about personal finance and investing.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 — “Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.” (Don’t put it all in one place.)
Don’t plant until you find good soil.
First set up your own solar company. You don’t have to actually hire anybody or buy any equipment. You just have to go through the motions and red tape applications so that your company exists legally on paper. This should cost you only a few hundred in legal and application fees.
Next, you send a ten thousand dollar contribution to the obama re-election campaign. I know that’s a distasteful thing to do, but don’t worry, it won’t cause him to win the election.
Next, you apply to the federal government for a couple billion dollars worth in grants for green research and development fees. Your grant application will be fast tracked and approved. And you’ll be a couple billion dollars richer.
After you’ve got your billions, immediately file for bankruptcy and dissolve your company.
Warning. You have to get this done before Jan 20, 2013.
Open a self directed IRA. There are lots of self directed IRA custodians out there. You may then convert soon to be worthless U.S. dollars into hard tangible goods within the protection of the IRA. Any gains will be tax deferred. One of the absolute best thing you can do in a self directed IRA is make real estate secured loans of less than 50% of appraised value (or even less...like a home equity loan for folks wanting to get a little cash out of their home for stupid depreciating things). You can even hold just plain old bank CDs in your self directed IRA. There are rules regarding who can benefit; you can’t hold the mortgage on your own home or those of certain family members and you can’t, for instance, buy a vacation condo and then stay in it yourself but there are very inventive ways to get around these rules. YOU get to make ALL the decisions not some “expert” that gets paid whether you make money or not. You can even own precious metals in your self directed IRA although you can’t take physical possession of the metal. There are a world of possibilities out there for the self directed IRA holder.
I also need to know their debts and life insurance policies. There is no need to invest in 5% equity dividends and 3% corp/muni bonds if they have $20k credit card debt at 10%, 2 car loans at 4% worth 20k, and less than 50 % equity in their home.
. My professional advice is to spend the first $500-1000 on lunch with a CPA/ atty team. Pay off all debts costing over 6%, and NEVER give or take investment advice off the Internet. There is a reason we are registered with MSRB/SEC/FINRA. If this freeper actually took specific advice and lost any amount, he'd probably very easily find an atty to sue for loss.
Obviously, we don't know anything about your background--your age, your investment goals, your familiarity with the financial markets, your current level of debt, or your risk tolerance.
Outside of an outright Vegas-style gamble, I would consider two things at this point in time. 1) I would dollar-cost average my money into whatever investment you find. That way, you're not buying all-in at the top, only to have the entire investment go south.
2) For any serious investment, I might consider waiting until after the November elections. An Obama re-election will tell lots of companies what the market will be like for another four years, and I don't think it'll be pretty.
I hear the CRACK DEALERS are doing really well!
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