What Do You Do With Large Amounts Of Money?
What Do You Do With Large Amounts Of Money?
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You pay somebody to deal with it.
Mixture of types depending on your goals. CDs, Bonds, Stocks, etc.
You can just open more accounts also.
When you have enough to live well for multiple lifetimes, it always perpexes me when people fixate on makkng more.
You won, go enjoy hobbies you can easily fund now, this is just hoarding at this point.
For 100 million you are good but for more realistic amounts of money the value of it generally just goes down with time so it is a good idea to do something with it.
I think the behavior of hoarding is pretty human and there is a broader failure of inequality.
I completely disagree with you.
If you gain sufficient amount of money (we are talking 100M $ here, but it works even for 1M), you have SO MUCH MONEY that it can generate money by itself within a reasonable timeframe AND you can live really really well with it, enjoy your hobbies and free time, all at the same time. And if you don’t know how to do it, let a professional help you, because you can pay for them, too.
Let’s say you have $100,000,000 dropped in your lap. You now never have to worry about needing money ever again, which in our current society means you don’t need to worry about a LOT of problems.
So it’s natural that most people want to preserve that security, the best way to do that would be to invest the money in a way that it grows equal to, or faster than you will spend it.
You can just get it all in cash and stuff it under your floorboards, but there’s a non zero chance that the money will be physically destroyed or stolen from a disaster.
You can stick it in a bank, but you have very little protection for the bulk of that money from the government insurance.
So the smartest thing to do is to spread that money out to investments that will grow that money in a diverse way to protect your newfound security.
Once that is set up, you create a will (or trust) to handle the money when you are dead. Who gets to benefit from your windfall once you’re gone?
Then you have complete freedom to live your life how you want to.
You don’t have to, but it’s kinda dumb not to. You can cram it all into a wooden chest and bury it in your backyard if you want, but while its down there its slowly losing value.
Instead you can set it up to make more money for you, without you having to do anything. Money, in sufficient quantities, can become self-replicating unless you do dumb shit with it and waste it. You just hire someone who knows how to make that happen, some financial manager of some sort, and they take care of it. You can even set it up so they just budget out an allowance of your own money for you, so you know how much you can spend every month or whatever. If you want.
This way you don’t have to worry about anything, you just know you have such-and-such amount every month to play with, just like most people. It’s just a lot more than most people get.
Have you ever seen the opening credits to Duck Tales?
That.
New roof, solar panels, battery, EV, remodel part of the house, new siding, buy a small house in my neighborhood to function as a guest house, take care of my parents, spend a couple months in Europe.
Oh, you meant the rest of it. Government bonds are always good. You can also use more than one bank to expand the $250k limit (which applies per account type and bank). A trust, for example, is insured separately from your checking account.
Past that, I couldn’t tell you. Your financial advisor would though, just make sure they have a “fiduciary duty” to serve your interests.
www.forbes.com/…/ways-to-insure-excess-deposits/
Here are some of the most common strategies if you’re over 250k. But at 100M it would be very foolish to not invest (likely hiring a private wealth manager to do so competently).
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Here in Norway you are legally required to attend a few sessions with financial advisors(a protected title here, so they will actually be qualified), before you are able to recieve your winnings.
The rough thoughts I have had about being in such a situation is to allocate maybe 10%-20% as “fuck you money” to have fun with, and the rest to follow all their advice with
That’s a really great idea! More places should do that. Maybe then there’d be a lot fewer people losing all their money within years.
In addition to major prize winners, it should also apply to people who have just started earning a massive income. Eg, professional athletes.
investment opportunities are endless really. I’d buy real estate & develop it for resale - relatively easy profits there. US FDIC only insures up to 250k per account, but there are other country’s banks out there - the Swiss banking system was a popular choice in the past but I’ve heard that the Cayman Island banking system is good as well. invest in tech - small businesses, as a few tens of millions isnt going to go that far, but 100 mil is good seed capital.
or, shit, just retire on it & pass the remains to your descendants.
“Pass the remains to your descendants”
Arrange to have your remains well preserved before doing this.
You can also gift something like 12 million in your lifetime tax free, so pass on as much as you can, to your family that way, before you die.
If you don’t keep all your money in 1 bank accounts the FDIC insurance will cover it. Iirc it’s either 250k per account, or maybe it was per person, per institution.
As recent events have shown, the FDIC guarantee amount isn’t a hard limit (at least in the US). That said, the name of the game is to keep accumulating capital, so you just use the money to make investments. Maybe you have some specific ideas about which investments to make, but typically you just hire a company to do this for you. What you don’t do is spend it. Instead, you use those investments as collateral on lines of credit and that is how you get your spending money. This way, you get useful cash flow while minimizing your taxable income.
An important thing to do is launder your reputation by contributing to charities and causes and making investments that have popular appeal. It’s cheap insurance to make sure the working class doesn’t bear too much resentment for you specifically if a revolution ever does materialize.
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Of course first into a bank, a few million in crypto, another few million in ETF, another few million to actual brokers. Then it's time to start buying up property and renting it out at a fair rate - it's not like I don't have money invested elsewhere. All this to diversify investments.
Gotta buy my entire family houses too, so that they don't have to be wage slaves anymore. I should be left with... 50M or more?
Now the fun part starts: investing in opensource. I'd spend my time making a team to find "critical" places to invest in. Stuff where there's just little to no competition or the market is dominated by big players. Identify opensource projects that could challenge that dominance and see if groups would want to work on it full time, be it development, marketing, hardware costs, security audits, etc.
And of course travel and do lots of drugs.