OT: if you suddenly found yourself with a massive windfall, how would you invest it?

CatManTrue

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Asking for a friend. S&P 500 and QQQ recommendations not needed.

Let’s say you or your favorite son suddenly found a big NIL cash bag while walking home from school.

How should they save and/or invest it?
 

hdhntr1

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Asking for a friend. S&P 500 and QQQ recommendations not needed.

Let’s say you or your favorite son suddenly found a big NIL cash bag while walking home from school.

How should they save and/or invest it?
If it is all cash you might have to hire some muscle and become a loan shark. Got to be careful of taking all that cash to the bank as they now track all those big cash transfers,

But seriously it depends what your goals and needs are
 
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CatManTrue

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If it is all cash you might have to hire some muscle and become a loan shark. Got to be careful of taking all that cash to the bank as they now track all those big cash transfers,

But seriously it depends what your goals and needs are
Not the response I was expecting from a retired fellow engineer… but we all have a little Heisenberg in us, I suppose.
 
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hdhntr1

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If it is all cash you might have to hire some muscle and become a loan shark. Got to be careful of taking all that cash to the bank as they now track all those big cash transfers,

But seriously it depends what your goals and needs are
Those goals often depend on what stage of life you are at and what other circumstances are important, If older, income, taxes limiting risk and efficient passing it on might be most important. Younger and not needing it to live, growth would put you in best long term position.
 

hdhntr1

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A friend of mine had a share of a Milwaukee Brewers farm team. Can I have that?
A friend of my fathers had a share of Milwaukee Bucks. Better figure the revenue steams for that farm team cause you do not want to feed it
 

CatManTrue

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I just am proud again to say that not one single NU poster has suggested it be wasted on NIL.

Did anyone see the news story about the Temple booster that donated $500K only for football NIL?

That may get them a decent offensive guard.
 

hdhntr1

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I just am proud again to say that not one single NU poster has suggested it be wasted on NIL.

Did anyone see the news story about the Temple booster that donated $500K only for football NIL?

That may get them a decent offensive guard.
Have to have it before you can donate it
 

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Asking for a friend. S&P 500 and QQQ recommendations not needed.

Let’s say you or your favorite son suddenly found a big NIL cash bag while walking home from school.

How should they save and/or invest it?
If a bag of NIL money is a massive windfall, it's on the level of paying off the mortgage, the remaining college loans, maybe buying a new commuter car. Possibly helping a family member from the next generation get thru college themselves or, if you're young enough, helping the previous generation get thru recent and totally apolitical economic hardships for which they have inelastic recovery abilities.

If it's a massive windfall, you don't have the kind of money to donate much of anything to a sports franchise.
 

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I wonder how an NIL "payer" feels when he helps pay his schools star QB or Point Guard's "salary" (for lack of a better word) and then the player goes on and has a flop of a season and doesn't make a bowl or March Madness. Maybe some people are so rich they can just shrug that off or something.
 

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I wonder how an NIL "payer" feels when he helps pay his schools star QB or Point Guard's "salary" (for lack of a better word) and then the player goes on and has a flop of a season and doesn't make a bowl or March Madness. Maybe some people are so rich they can just shrug that off or something.
I'm guessing it really varies. I know people who have family foundations and some of them agonize over each grant they make and others have a fairly steady portfolio they settled on a while back and don't necessarily look too closely at the performance of each of their grantees year to year.