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Are there any safe havens for personal wealth ?

What do individuals with substantial personal wealth do with their savings now ?

1) Stockmarkets in turmoil
2) Banks having serious problems
3) Housing falling in value
4) Gold price very unstable

These are worrying times for ordinary people but what options are now available to your average millionaire ?
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  • Moon_Boi
    Moon_Boi Posts: 101 Forumite
    Rhino666 wrote: »
    What do individuals with substantial personal wealth do with their savings now ?

    1) Stockmarkets in turmoil
    2) Banks having serious problems
    3) Housing falling in value
    4) Gold price very unstable

    These are worrying times for ordinary people but what options are now available to your average millionaire ?

    Government Bonds?
  • missile
    missile Posts: 11,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    what options are now available to your average millionaire ?

    Buy a carribean island and enjoy life
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,712 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    Perhaps buy land? There is a finite supply of it and although there's no demand for land and building at the moment, once we're out of the recession, the market will turn around.
  • Radiantsoul
    Radiantsoul Posts: 2,096 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Rhino666 wrote: »
    What do individuals with substantial personal wealth do with their savings now ?

    1) Stockmarkets in turmoil
    2) Banks having serious problems
    3) Housing falling in value
    4) Gold price very unstable

    These are worrying times for ordinary people but what options are now available to your average millionaire ?

    Short selling shares.
  • eeja
    eeja Posts: 374 Forumite
    Rhino666 wrote: »
    What do individuals with substantial personal wealth do with their savings now ?

    1) Stockmarkets in turmoil
    2) Banks having serious problems
    3) Housing falling in value
    4) Gold price very unstable

    These are worrying times for ordinary people but what options are now available to your average millionaire ?

    Rhodium...a very rare and precious metal or better still known famous works of art. How about a Rembrandt ?
  • eeja wrote: »
    Rhodium...a very rare and precious metal or better still known famous works of art. How about a Rembrandt ?

    Can you buy Rhodium coins?...got enough Krugerrands :j
  • Buy something useful and then forget how much it cost you.

    Even Milton Friedmann said they key to wealth was not to save too much!
    Target acheived: _party_ Mortgage offset in June 2012!_party_
    Mortgage = -£98
    Endowment = £0
    Investments = £40,247
    [STRIKE]Deficit[/STRIKE] / Surplus = £40,149(at 22/09/2017)
    "Don't spend then save, save then spend!"
  • SmileyG wrote: »
    Buy something useful and then forget how much it cost you.

    Even Milton Friedmann said they key to wealth was not to save too much!

    Yeah, buy a Mercedes S65 AMG, you'll loose £50k depreciation in the first year...but it's only money :j
  • missile wrote: »
    Buy a carribean island and enjoy life

    until the neighbours want to build a hotel , take that sir richard branston in a pickle.

    I hate that guy , conceited love child.He says "be green" but sells holdiays then complains when a hotel wants to be built along from his "private island to himslef and the stars".
    Have you tried turning it off and on again?
  • eeja
    eeja Posts: 374 Forumite
    Ivor_Bigun wrote: »
    Can you buy Rhodium coins?...got enough Krugerrands :j
    Found this on the web..perhaps Rembrand etchings are best as they are still affordable

    There are a few reasons why they don't make rhodium coins or rhodium bullion:
    • Rhodium: rare. There are only 25 tons of it mined per year
    • Rhodium: brittle. If it were in coin or bullion form, it could easily break.
    • Rhodium: expensive. An ounce it would costs thousands of dollars. Rhodium reached $10,000 for 1 oz this year, I'd imagine that a coin would have had a 10% premium. It is only $1300 for 1 oz now, but if they had them, they wouldn't be selling for any less than $3000
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