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I hear a bell ringing and the tone is telling me....mutual fund...
Alright, plain and simple here. If you have $100,000, and you're coming onto an online travel forum figuring out where to invest it, you want to stay away from stocks. I would suggest bonds, but with funds, a little more risk equals a lot more profit.
I guess maybe I'll sound like a broken record here, but check out the thread called.."picking a stock broker" or something. A few of us had a lengthy discussion on the Vanguard 500 fund. Check it out.
i have 100k cash at hand. i dont need it to live on, but i want to make some money with it. any advice?
Look at the Franklin Templeton Founders Fund. Made up of three funds, it has averaged 13% a year for 30 years. Only 5 down years, 2 were the first two years it was around.
i have 100k cash at hand. i dont need it to live on, but i want to make some money with it. any advice?
I would break it up into 3rds. 1/3 real estate investment; 1/3 to pay down a mortgage if you have one; 1/3 stock market (scatter it into etfs, mutual funds, bonds, CDs... depending on your age, you can take more risks). I wouldn't dump it into the stock market alone.
$100,000 - not enough to live on OR retire on, just so you know. But it's a start.
assuming minimum 13 year investment, unknown what your risk tolerance is (i.e. - you better have more than just this $100k invenstment if you plan to retire at 55 and live past 60) - I would dump it into 3 or 4 mutual funds. Maybe one safe bond fund, a couple index funds, a couple high risk/return equity funds.
100k is spare cash. i have 401k maxed out at 25% every pay period, pension, and mutual fund.
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