What would be the safest investment, the riskiest, and what would be the smartest?
2007-03-25 13:34:08 · 8 answers · asked by drusolo23 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
There is no safe investment, they are all risk. That is a myth of a safe investment.
If I had to catergorize though, real estate is probably the safest. Stocks are the riskiest, actually individual stocks. Smartest real estate.
I am biased toward real estate because I invest in Real Estate in Montgomery Al. So I am all for ir, but it is lucritive and consistant, that is what I want. Hope this helped.
landstonegsl@yahoo.com
2007-03-25 13:40:35 · answer #1 · answered by JoshuaCaleb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The safest investment would be to put your maximum contribution into a Roth IRA. Next, pay off the house.
Riskiest investment would be buying Enron stock. Seriously, there is literally million risky investments out there. A SMART risky investment would be investing in a foreign stock index fund. China and India are the two emerging world players, and vanguard has low cost no load index funds available.
The smartest would be to assess what risks you are willing to take and speak to a professional investment advisor.
2007-03-25 21:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by The Iconoclast 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(DLR) Doral Financal Corp. Like all the ether Morgage bankers they took a big loss when the fed sent the morgage rates the rong why. naw here is a bank out of Puerto Rico that was bounsing somewere between $15 to $20 a stock a year ago is naw at $1.91. That means that a year a go when rates were good they started giving out lots of lones to the timmes and salies of the world. Well what happened is rates went up and a lot of the timmes and salies couldn't pay back the loans on there doll houses and bicks. the bank had to forclose on property putting there invertory way over there overhead (any inventory for a bank is bad inventory), So here again is a bank that sat a $20 a share and then put that money out there. That money is still out there its just naw in the form of timmies and salies morgages. Morgages that I know from experiance that tim and sal well fight to the death to keep and pay. Drl might of took a short turm loss but it is going to grow back to it $15 soon and then keep rising my best estement $30 maybe $35 a share. more. One of the reasons DRl over ether Morgage banks. New york commercial bank just bot out most of them. So new York comm is baling them out sort turm and banking on the long term. That is all those timmys and salis paying them back. Buy !!!!!
2007-03-26 01:06:19 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put 50% in a 12 month CD very safe. Learn about the stock market Invest the rest in it medium risk low risk and high risk. just remember to diversify.
2007-03-25 21:30:53 · answer #4 · answered by franksprung 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Safest...CDs at a bank or Money Market Mutual Fund.
Riskiest FOREX.
Smartest, If you don't know what you are doing, Is No Load, Balanced Mutual Fund at your bank, Has Diversified basket of stocks, bonds and money market instruments, that is low in risk and low in Volitility.
2007-03-25 22:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by bob shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would put about 30 grand into a cd ladder. another 30 into index funds. and the rest into a high yeild savings account where i would cost average into higher risk mutual funds for the next five to ten years as well as slide a little extra into my roth ira every year.
2007-03-25 23:06:01 · answer #6 · answered by comic book guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forex! I invested 200 in forex market and now have a few grand in a month!
if you want you can read up on it and see how easy it is!
http://www.forexaim.com
2007-03-25 20:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by sidnal07 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right now something in india
2007-03-25 20:41:00 · answer #8 · answered by Nina V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋