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  • Vortigern
    Vortigern Posts: 3,311 Forumite
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    See the link to Top Savings Accounts above your post. You need a bunch of current accounts.
  • Peer to Peer.
    : )
  • 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
  • Vortigern wrote: »
    See the link to Top Savings Accounts above your post. You need a bunch of current accounts.
    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

    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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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  • 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.

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