How to Invest Large Chunks of Money?
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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing
15 min
3 speakers
3 chapters
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Hey, this is Allie, and thanks for listening to the show. Give us a five-star review where you listen and share this episode with someone who might need to hear it. Now, enjoy the show. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another edition of DIY Money.
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Oh, man. It's starting to warm up. We have been cutting. We're on an episode frenzy right now. Occasionally, we'll get a little behind due to life, and we'll have to cut a few in a row, and that's no problem. But if you remember last week, we have been sitting in a 44-degree room that's now 57. And we messaged Quint about this, who is not here today, and he responded... R-O-F-L. Yeah, love it. Meaning, rolling on the floor laughing. Meaning, he doesn't care if we're cold.
That man is an animal. That's so true. That's brutal.
That is so true. That is a dagger to the heart.
Which is funny to me because Quint, he complains about temperature more than any person I've ever met in my entire life.
Which is saying something because you know me.
You know, it's like 55 degrees outside and sunny and beautiful. He's like, it's freezing! This is terrible! And then at the same time it gets up to 90 and he's like,
It's so hot. I wish it was colder. You know why? Because he has no hair.
That's true.
I knew it. We don't talk about that on the podcast, which I guess why would we bring that up? By the way, Quint is bald. We just want everyone to know. But I think it's actually really funny. He'll come in every day in the winter with his beanie on and he's always like, oh, like that was like a good impression of him coming in. He's, like, winded somehow from how cold it is. Exactly. It's brutal.
Every single time. Oh, my. Okay, Allie, we are just cranking through, and we got a really good question. We're getting these good, like, they're kind of basic questions, but they're, like, very complex answers. So I like that a lot. We're going to get into this one. Our sponsors are Juul Financial and our other great sponsors. Send us those questions, podcast.diymoney.org. That's podcast.diymoney.org. If you use it on the show, we'll give you a $25 Amazon gift card. Check us out on the socials, DIY Money Podcast. Let's get to our question from Brett. Brett, what do you got? DIY!
Hello, DIY Money. Thank you for your great podcast. This is Brett in Los Angeles. My wife and I are expecting our first child early next year, and my parents are interested in moving down from NorCal to help us out. My parents have both worked very hard throughout their lives, for which I'm very grateful. They've owned their own small businesses and have worked various jobs. My dad is almost at full retirement age and my mom is a few years younger. They are debt free, but don't really have any retirement resources to call upon or any experience investing. Here's my question. They recently inherited a house that they are looking to sell as they move to L.A. Assuming that they don't have housing costs in L.A., what is the methodology you would recommend for investing and saving, let's assume, $1 million so that they could use it as a relatively hastily set up retirement fund to complement Social Security and their minimal pre-existing benefits?
I know it is probably complicated, but what direction would you point us in? A portion in a high interest savings account and a portion in a conservatively allocated brokerage account? My siblings and I are obviously more concerned with my parents living comfortably now than any kind of inheritance. So should more of the funds be put into the high interest savings account and spent down? Sorry for the longer question and thank you so much for any insight you can provide. Have a good day.
Amazing. Great question, Brett. And just like Logan said before we played that question, a question that should feel very simple, but is all too complex. So I'm going to start and you're probably going to be like, huh? I did not expect her to start there. I'm actually going to start with the end result because what you decide on your allocation and how things are structured and how you're going to put it in and all of that is actually going to be dependent on one single factor.
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