Where to Stash Your Pile of Cash for the Best Return
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're saving up for an emergency fund, a mortgage down payment or college tuition, you might be sitting on a big pile of money and not sure where to put it. And with interest rates as low as they are—it's painful to see it just sit there earning nothing. We'll talk about a few options for where to stash your cash to get the most out of it—safely. We’ll also answer a listener's followup question about bonds and delve into some listener feedback.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Audible.com, the foremost provider of audiobooks for supporting today's episode. |
| 0:05.0 | Answers listeners can get a free 30-day trial by going to Audible.com slash Fool. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I am joined as always by Robert Brokamp, |
| 0:19.0 | personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool, and he's also the advisor on the Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement Newsletter. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, Allison. |
| 0:26.4 | Bro, how are you doing today? |
| 0:27.6 | Just groovy. |
| 0:28.3 | How are you? |
| 0:28.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:29.6 | Whether you're saving for a house or college, heading into retirement, or sitting on an emergency |
| 0:33.7 | fund, your options for stashing a huge pile of cash are less than super profitable. |
| 0:39.5 | Wom, wamp. But you do have options. In today's episode, we're going to explain a few |
| 0:43.9 | strategies for parking large amounts of money when the stock market isn't an option. All that |
| 0:49.0 | and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers. Today's Answers comes to us from Tom in Dayton. He recently |
| 0:56.5 | listened to our Broido Bond-themed podcast, thought it was awesome, and wrote in with this |
| 1:01.7 | question. My retirement investments are 100% in stocks, and not because I am a 10-year-old who |
| 1:07.6 | used the Formula 110 age. My reasoning is simple. |
| 1:11.5 | I have a defined pension benefit through my employer and contribute monthly to a deferred |
| 1:16.0 | compensation plan that offers guaranteed annuities. |
| 1:19.4 | Annuities, I know, but I have no kids, and these are offered through the rather |
| 1:22.9 | respectable nonprofit company, TIAA. |
| 1:25.7 | I've heard of it. |
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