Ask HN: How would you invest $500k?

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by jliptzin • 13 years ago

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Aside from startup investing, where would you allocate $500k? Real estate? S&P? Gold? Cash? Bitcoin? Assume no diversification - you can only put it in one place.

Mankhool• 13 years ago

Commercial RE.

simbolit• 13 years ago

The assumption is stupid. Sorry to say that, but it is.

If it is throwaway money, put it in bitcoin. It definitely has the greatest potential to double in reasonable time. It also has a fair chance of completely crashing, but, hey, it's throwaway money.

fennecfoxen• 13 years ago

VFFVX (Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund)

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=1487&...

(Actually, I have more my ~$300k in other Vanguard funds, but if I had to consolidate to exactly one, that'd be it.)

You could also make a case for VT (Vanguard Total World Stock ETF).

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=3141&...

It is a stupid question, though, as it makes no accounting for your individual situation, an important thing that defines your relationship with money.

bobfirestone• 13 years ago

S&P through a low fee mutual fund or ETF. It is boring but over the long haul will probably have the best performance.

If I was placing an all or nothing bet with $5k it would go in bit coin. I doubt the volatility will go away anytime soon so I suspect that it will either continue the explosive growth or crash.

davidsmith8900• 13 years ago

- If its one place, I'll put it in startups.

sharemywin• 13 years ago

Ivy league education

jbobes• 13 years ago

cloud306.com - startup, just launched (no press release yet), bootstrapped, wicked uber cool

macarthy12• 13 years ago

on Black

Casseres• 13 years ago

SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Growth ETF

strick• 13 years ago

wealthfront.com - author of Random Walk Down Wall Street is the investment guru. Auto allocation and tax loss harvesting.

AutoCorrect• 13 years ago

Indoor soccer field.

creativeone• 13 years ago

Buy multifamily real estate.

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