Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Is there a reason you are not working, you can usually invest up to 50% of your pay up the limits I would see about getting a job and put the money into a ROTH since you will be in a very low tax...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          What sucks in this situation is that you cant put this in a Roth IRA.  Im not sure of your employment situation but if you were to become employed, a far better retirement strategy would be to save...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          index fund is a great option as you stated but i am no expert.
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Index fund is the way to go. Do your research, bogleheads subreddit has really good info as a starting point. 40k is a small amount for an advisor imo and you’d be better off just managing it...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Are you planning to work at some point in the future?  If not, no need to care about the tax benefits of retirement accounts.  You're not paying income tax anyway.   
 
As was said, you can't invest...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          I cannot help you if you think Ethereum will outperform bitcoin. 
 
It is centralized and controlled.  They can choose to do whatever they want with it.  The servers can go down.  Sure, it is a...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          In general, the advice is here is horrible. 
 
My portfolio is up +318.47% in the past 3 years (and I've taken OUT easily 40% of the current balance in that time, so it is actually up 500%+) 
 
You...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Investing in Ethereum may not be your thing. I haven't yet, but I do know there are two major players and ETFs 
(BMNR) Bitmine Immersion Technologies and (SBET) Sharplink Gaming. 
 
Try to figure out...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Well, I'm in a slightly similar situation. I'm older and never worked much due to disabilities. My situation is very complex. Zogo is a nice little app that pays you to learn about finances. There...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Hi All, 
 
I didn't think people would still be commenting on this post so I thought I'd give you guys a quick update. 
 
First off, I realized I did have taxable income from odd jobs I'd been doing;...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Since it is two months, I ran the numbers on my recommendations. 
 
Total return in 2 months on diversified portfolio: 15% 
 
Worst Performer MSTR at -4%. 
Best Performer DAPP at 48.7% 
 
Annualized,...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          50% in VTI 
50% BND
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          thanks
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Let this be a catalyst for you to get financially situated.  Start a job and put as much into a ROTH target retirement (EG Vanguard), the rest could go into a guaranteed higher yeild savings.  You...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          40K ain't gonna do much for you at 45 years old. Better off enjoying it traveling.
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          For now, I would go with T-bills at roughly 4.3%.  A person who can not afford to lose money on investments or who has a low risk tolerance should not be in the stock market imo, but to each his own....
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Get a job so you can max a Roth IRA, $7000.  Stick the rest in a brokerage account, vti, vtsax, something that tracks the s&p500 with low fees.
         
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Without going into the reason for being unemployed if you do see yourself being employed at some time then going with a job now so you can put the money in a ROTH IRA but if you don't see yourself...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Do you believe BITCOIN will outperform ETHEREUM over the next 20 Years?
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Ethereum could be something totally different in a few years.  I don't want to invest in something that doesn't know what it is.  I hold a small amount of ethereum, but it is less than 2% of my...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Recommend reaching out to a financial consultant/firm who has a history of at least 10% returns yoy and managed by them. Long term this may be better option. Some examples are citi/fidelity/etc
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Current financial situation: 
 
45 yo old, unemployed.  living w/ parents and receiving financial help.  I don't have any retirement savings 
cash ready to invest: $40K 
can invest further $400 -...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          TSLA all the way to the moon!
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          I don't know what you think. 
 
I believe at this point in time Ethereum long term will easily be be 10x at a minimum. 
 
Please recommend where I should invest Bitcoin at today's price. The symbol,...
        
      
          Need advice on best retirement investment for sudden windfall ($40K) | mid-forties and no retirement savings          
        
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          Put your capital into a money market tied to the us treasury bonds. Dollar cost average into a technology fund and a metals fund for the next three years. This will flatten your average price payed...
        
      