100k to invest

aidanki

got about 100k to invest at the min, looking for medium risk

lowest risk I guess is to put it away for a year at 1year fixed

how would I go about investing it in say one of jim rogers funds or maybe even one of buffetts

Chemical Burn

Thinly-veiled "I have money thread"

aidanki

I have money to invest, not to squander

Believe me I earned it

was the only one in an organisation of more than 1000people to put in greater than 48hrs for a period of 12weeks

that 48hrs doesn't include breaks for breakfast and dinner

Roonbox

aidanki wrote: »

I have money to invest, not to squander

Believe me I earned it

was the only one in an organisation of more than 1000people to put in greater than 48hrs for a period of 12weeks

that 48hrs doesn't include breaks for breakfast and dinner

Buy Physical silver


sit on it.

Chemical Burn

Where did you get the money OP ?

aidanki

Roonbox wrote: »

Buy Physical silver


sit on it.

the age old question, why silver

aidanki

Chemical Burn wrote: »

Where did you get the money OP ?

a number of savings accounts I had over the last 10yrs are maturing together

Procyon

Silver (or gold) is high risk. Putting all of your money into these is very high risk.

arrowloopboy

aidanki wrote: »

got about 100k to invest at the min, looking for medium risk

lowest risk I guess is to put it away for a year at 1year fixed

how would I go about investing it in say one of jim rogers funds or maybe even one of buffetts

You could always learn how to trade/invest by reading a few books and subscribeing to investors chronicle or similar ,formulateing a system and do it yourself .

Roonbox

Procyon wrote: »

Silver (or gold) is high risk. Putting all of your money into these is very high risk.

I wouldn't say 'very' high risk, but definitely more risky than leaving your money in the bank.

arrowloopboy

Procyon wrote: »

Silver (or gold) is high risk. Putting all of your money into these is very high risk.

This Is why I advised him to learn how to invest himself,if not, he might take silly advice from a stranger on an internet forum.

aidanki

correct

learn how to invest, Im trying, something ive been reading about online etc, have read a few of Jim Rogers books and buffetts

but something I cannot find, say pick a stock analyse it and see whether its a good buy or now, lots of talk in these books but not so easy to put into practice

garancafan

aidanki wrote: »

I have money to invest, not to squander

Believe me I earned it

was the only one in an organisation of more than 1000people to put in greater than 48hrs for a period of 12weeks

that 48hrs doesn't include breaks for breakfast and dinner

That makes 4 hrs per week.

If what you meant to say was 48 hrs per week - that is trivial. There are many public sector workers who routinely put in many more hrs per week for no extra remuneration.

aidanki

garancafan wrote: »

That makes 4 hrs per week.

If what you meant to say was 48 hrs per week - that is trivial. There are many public sector workers who routinely put in many more hrs per week for no extra remuneration.

what I meant was a min of 8hrs overtime excluding dinner and breakfast for more than 12 weeks, which in reality was a 7am-7pm day for a v long time ~6mths, sometimes a 6day week

this was all unpaid btw

anyway to get back on topic whatever about hrs worked any bright ideas on how to learn about investing

TheBikeGuy

Could always buy some of Buffets company Berkshire Hathaway and let him manage some of your money

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BRK-B

Gold and Silver are pure speculation.

Some high quality dividend stocks would be a good steady choice.

Kraft - 4% dividend http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=KRFT

ConocoPhilips - 4.6% dividend http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=COP

General Electric 3.5% dividend http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GE

Cisco Systems 3.3% dividend http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CSCO

McDonalds 3.1% dividend http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MCD

arrowloopboy

garancafan wrote: »

That makes 4 hrs per week.

If what you meant to say was 48 hrs per week - that is trivial. There are many public sector workers who routinely put in many more hrs per week for no extra remuneration.

Awwww the poor civil servants:rolleyes:

garancafan

Civil servants make up about 10% of the public service.

Mr Cawley

One year + medium risk is not investing. Decide whether you're investing or saving for the short-term.

Roonbox

arrowloopboy wrote: »

This Is why I advised him to learn how to invest himself,if not, he might take silly advice from a stranger on an internet forum.

It is pretty common knowledge (although don't ask me to prove it) that 90% of traders lose money. So I would argue that your advice is much riskier.

arrowloopboy

Roonbox wrote: »

It is pretty common knowledge (although don't ask me to prove it) that 90% of traders lose money. So I would argue that your advice is much riskier.

I'll agree that's probably true ,but 90% of people probably have no plan and are probably mentally unprepared for how trading/investing is going to attack their emotions.
This might sound silly but its very apt ''fail to prepare and prepare to fail''( you also have to be mentally prepared,i rate this as nearly the most important part of tradeing ,as well as having a system with a positive expectancy )

Thankfully i'm in the minority :P.

keeponhurling

Well, if it's any more than 100k, don't put it in a single bank account in the EU anywhere.
Something about governments just taking people's savings.
Spread it out a bit.

DarkDusk

keeponhurling wrote: »

Well, if it's any more than 100k, don't put it in a single bank account in the EU anywhere.
Something about governments just taking people's savings.
Spread it out a bit.

I'd go further and not have it in an EU bank at all.

tommylimerick

100 k is a tidy amount
you had a couple of saving accounts which matured together and now you are stumpted to come up with something to do with your money
keep reading books and the newspapers and subscribe to a couple of free e mail newsletters and reports
I invest in the stock market ,many of the products the bank invest in are almost exclusively based on it s performance except some times the bank invest in projects with a blindfold on ,but I guess that kept unemployment down ,I am also a member of a investment club where we meet up once a month and talk about the market
why only last month I started reading about the market maker
so I am still learning too