@rookie54 saidYep, you get it, it’s a gift.
"Someone gives you an amount of money equivalent to 25%* of your total net worth"
this is money i did not have access to beforehand, right???
out of the blue, an aunt i never knew existed, who worshipped me from afar, knowing that one day i would help her transform her meaningless life into a movie with scarjo playing her role...
whoa, nice fantasy, rookie...
i w ...[text shortened]... n a marijuana growing operation in a state where such a thing is permissible by law...
i win...
The question is what would you do with it based on the simple rules in the OP?
@badradger saidInteresting! I think I’ve heard of something like this from another friend but I don’t know how it works.
peer to peer means no banks involved Zopa is the one I use so i put a grand into thier account and they lend it out by spliting it into £50.00 blocks they pay back nearly 6 % per year, so far they have never defaulted on anyone but I keep my investment low unlike premium bonds whick i havemaxed out.
So it’s fairly high risk but high return?
@the-gravedigger saidGold must be safe bet for any investor?
Investing used to be fairly straight forward.
Buy shares in good companies,re invest the dividends and enjoy life.
Now everything depends upon what the central banks are doing.
I am about 40% cash, 30% Index linked bonds 10% gold with the remaining amount in blue chip shares.
I often advise friends to put money into Premium Bonds if they ask.
Wait for the next big market correction.
@great-big-stees saidYeah the game here is how would you return a profit in a year, maybe two. Long term investments like property are hard to argue against so not much topical fun in a thread like this.
And you did say it must be invested for only a year and then "sold".
@chessturd saidI seem to remember real estate taking a major hit in 2008.
Never invest in paper stocks.
It can become worthless over night.
Remember the 2008 financial crisis?
People lost half of their worth because of "paper" stocks and crap like it.
While they were crying about their losses I made money in precious metals.
I'm more of a long term "hold until old" invester...real estate, silver and gold coins in my possession.
REAL ASSETS ...[text shortened]... companies that did that and I can do the work myself and one year is plenty of time to get it done.
The concept of 'real assets' does not always work.
Depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go.
@the-gravedigger saidIt did but right now in Canada you can get homes relatively cheap. I'm waiting for the next market crash/correction before I buy property. Buy low and then renovate and sell when the market is better.
I seem to remember real estate taking a major hit in 2008.
The concept of 'real assets' does not always work.
Depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go.
Property and gold/silver are real assets.
Paper investments are just paper and can become worthless over night.
Edit: property, gold/silver I consider long term investments...not sure about short term investments for profit
@chessturd saidYou’ve got a year to invest 25% of your entire net worth and then cash in...
It did but right now in Canada you can get homes relatively cheap. I'm waiting for the next market crash/correction before I buy property. Buy low and then renovate and sell when the market is better.
Property and gold/silver are real assets.
Paper investments are just paper and can become worthless over night.
Edit: property, gold/silver I consider long term investments...not sure about short term investments for profit
Would it be property?
@divegeester saidI would probably ask a trusted person to invest it for me. I'm not interested in Money.
@Torunn
Keep it (your 25% of your net worth gift) under the bed??
@chessturd saidSo it seems your investment philosophy is polarised between low risk (property) and high risk (penny stocks)?
If I could buy low and renovate and sell then yes.
(No renovation cost because I do that work)
If not... maybe just buy a bunch of penny stocks and wait and see if any of them get big.
@divegeester saidLow risk long term property/gold/silver.
So it seems your investment philosophy is polarised between low risk (property) and high risk (penny stocks)?
If time is an issue and I only have one year then high risk is worth it.
I would never do anything other than gold/silver/property and long term.
You gave a sell date of one year. That's not very long.