Originally Posted by
Patler
Just send it to:
P.O Box.................... ! :lol:
Seriously, now:
Anything anyone might recommend today, even for a mutual fund, is meaningless unless you actually have the money to invest today. You need to evaluate your options when you can actually make the investment.
I am doing a lot of buying and selling of individual stocks because I find it entertaining, and as I have mentioned several times I started with a nice chunk of "found money" that I never expected to have. Even so, I spend a lot of time making sure I don't screw it up too badly. To my way of thinking, any individual security is a very short term recommendation, because you have to continually re-evaluate in a clear, unbiased way whether it is something you should continue to hold or not. You can see from this thread how often I re-evaluate just my holdings of AAPL. Not everyone wants to spend the time doing that. I look at it as a hobby.
I expect you will want to look for a mutual fund, but I'm not in a position to recommend any. I have a significant amount in several, but to my way of thinking their performance has been lackluster. I need to spend considerable time figuring out what to switch them into myself. I don't know that there are any real shining stars out there right now. I don't know of any anyway. Everyone took such a beating 3 years ago that you really have to dig into what they have and haven't done, and even whether or not the fund manager is the same. Many have changed.
You would be better of reading or soliciting the recommendations of real experts, not us on a football fan site!