How to Invest $1 Million (A Simple Strategy To Invest a Lump Sum)
The Personal Finance Podcast
Andrew Giancola
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | on this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | how to invest $1 million, a simple strategy to invest a lump sum. |
| 0:30.8 | Whoa. What's up, everybody, and welcome to the personal finance podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:36.8 | Andrew, founder of mastermoney.com. And today on the personal finance podcast, we're going to be diving into how to invest $1 million, |
| 0:39.9 | a simple strategy to invest a lump sum. |
| 0:42.4 | If you guys have any questions, make sure you join the Master Money newsletter by going |
| 0:46.2 | to mastermoney.co slash newsletter. |
| 0:49.3 | And don't forget to follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube, or whatever podcast player, |
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| 1:01.4 | Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Now, in this episode, we are going to be talking about |
| 1:07.1 | what to do with a larger amount of money. Now, there are a number of different reasons why someone would get a big lump sum of money. And for some of you out there, you're going to be saying to yourself, well, how will this episode help me? Well, if you ever stumble upon a larger amount of money, maybe it is for an inheritance. And, you know, somebody in your family passes away and they give you an inheritance. This is how I would think about the inheritance. Or maybe you go out and you sell a business. And so you get this big differentiator in your life where you go out and sell a business and you don't know what to do with those dollars after you sold that business. You put your heart and soul into the business. You spent all your time in your business and you were not thinking about anything else and you don't know what to do with that money. |
| 1:45.0 | Or maybe you sold some real estate. |
| 1:47.6 | Maybe you sold your home or you refinanced the house and or you had an insurance payout for property loss. |
| 1:53.1 | And so you got a big, big pay out there. |
| 1:55.9 | Or maybe you had some big investments that you sold. |
| 1:58.2 | Maybe you got into crypto early and sold that. |
| 2:00.3 | Or maybe you had a big cash out or you want a lawsuit or you had a structured settlement buyout. Or there could be |
| 2:06.0 | a number of other different reasons why this could happen to you. Well, if you ever got a big lump sum, |
| 2:12.5 | I'm going to tell you how I would think about that process and how I would systematically look at this to make sure I |
| 2:19.2 | put this in the optimal place for what I want to do, how I valued my dollars. Now, the big thing |
| 2:24.5 | overall is you need to understand that you want to put this in the place that is best for you. This is |
| 2:30.4 | going to be different for every single person out there. Some people, it may be great to |
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