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DEEDIA
DEEDIA Posts: 27 Forumite
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well £40,000 / £50,000 fed up of getting nothing in return

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  • Vortigern
    Vortigern Posts: 3,243 Forumite
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    See the link to Top Savings Accounts above your post. You need a bunch of current accounts.
  • Flobberchops
    Flobberchops Posts: 1,279 Forumite
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    Peer to Peer.
    : )
  • bigfreddiel
    bigfreddiel Posts: 4,263 Forumite
    Flobberchops wrote: »
    Peer to Peer.

    Only 5% of it, put the rest into an equity ISA, well £15k worth and rhe rest into high interest accounts, next year top up your equity ISA with £20k nice one fj
  • AndyT678
    AndyT678 Posts: 757 Forumite
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    Vortigern wrote: »
    See the link to Top Savings Accounts above your post. You need a bunch of current accounts.
    Flobberchops wrote: »
    Peer to Peer.
    bigfreddiel wrote: »
    Only 5% of it, put the rest into an equity ISA, well £15k worth and rhe rest into high interest accounts, next year top up your equity ISA with £20k nice one fj

    Well those are all either utterly brilliant or completely p1sspoor suggestions depending on what the OP plans to do with the money and when and how they feel about risking it.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    AndyT678 wrote: »
    Well those are all either utterly brilliant or completely p1sspoor suggestions depending on what the OP plans to do with the money and when and how they feel about risking it.

    What would YOUR suggestion be, given the info in the opening post?
  • AndyT678
    AndyT678 Posts: 757 Forumite
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    Sleazy wrote: »
    What would YOUR suggestion be, given the info in the opening post?

    My suggestion would be to ask what the OP plans to do with the money and when and how they feel about risking it.

    Sorry if that didn't come through in the last post.
  • grey_gym_sock
    grey_gym_sock Posts: 4,508 Forumite
    AndyT678 wrote: »
    My suggestion would be to ask what the OP plans to do with the money and when and how they feel about risking it.

    no, i think we should keep guessing what the OP's situation and plans are.

    OP: pay off your credit card debts, and use the rest to start your own business, as you've always wanted to.
  • EdGasket
    EdGasket Posts: 3,503 Forumite
    Buy gold; it'll always be worth something unlike fiat currency.
  • george4064
    george4064 Posts: 2,810 Forumite
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    Go on that round the world cruise you've always wanted to do!
    "If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes” Warren Buffett

    Save £12k in 2021 - #027 £15,268 (76%)
  • Carrieanne
    Carrieanne Posts: 122 Forumite
    EdGasket wrote: »
    Buy gold; it'll always be worth something unlike fiat currency.

    Ah, gold. It's not too popular hereabouts amongst the fiat-loving natives.

    If you haven't heard of Jim Rickards, here's his wiki bio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rickards

    He's stated for years that the US dollar will die, and he says unequivocally that its demise will begin next Friday. Here: On Friday, September 30th...
    a new kind of "world money" goes live - http://pro.agorafinancial.com/AWN_dollarreset_0716/LAWNS933/?AID=3818&h=true

    28 years ago the Rothschild family owned The Economist magazine carried this front page which predicted a new world reserve currency in 2018.

    World-Currency-782x1024.jpg
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