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Hey, so I manage a special needs trust for my mother who's 67. And currently the money in that account is about 170,000 and it's all sitting in cash. And I got a call from the bank today asking if I, you know, they kind of encouraged me to invest it in different ways. And I recently saw a video of you talking about the risks of bonds.
And I wanted to call and ask your opinion on how I should best feel about this. Yeah, I would not do any bonds for sure. Your mom is in a special needs trust? What's her issue? She has multiple sclerosis, has had it for 30 years, and is in a nursing home. Oh, wow. Okay. And the 170 is all the money she has in the world? Plus about $10,000 in checking account, but yes. Okay. That's it. All right.
And how much are you using? Is there a burn rate on it? Are you using it for her care? I have not touched a cent of it in the few years it's been active since I established it. How is she being cared for? Medicare, Medicaid. Okay.
Okay. All right. Cool. All right. So to the extent we can leave it alone, we can invest it in something that has a longer time horizon to be safe. So just like a good growth stock mutual fund, if you leave that alone five years, you're pretty safe. OK, so I certainly wouldn't put all of it there. I'd be looking for a mix between high yield savings for a big chunk of this.
And then the other chunk, I might do something as simple as an S&P 500 or sit down with a smart investor pro and just pick out some very, very calm growth and income type funds. But all of those funds would be, you know, in the last year they would have paid 20 percent. But the last year the market was up 30 percent.
um which is crazy that's not normal but in a in an average they would probably pay out 10 where the market's paying out 12 where a high yield savings is paying out four so correct you know i'm going to invest some of it not all i'm going to invest some of it not all of it to the extent i'm comfortable i can leave my hands off of it okay what does the next one to two years look like as far as short-term costs
I really don't know how to answer that question. I don't foresee any major costs. But, you know, like, for example, she just had a bunch of dental work done that wasn't covered. But we were able to pay that without having to dip into this special needs trust. So things like that, maybe. But otherwise, I'm not sure.
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