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  • Golf club fodder here but whatever...

    What kinds of rates would you be expecting to get, after tax, if you had £500k cash to invest for a 4 year period:

    • low-to-medium risk - this is not YOLO/FAFO money
    • Assume 40% income tax
    • Happy for up to 80% of it to be tied up for the full 4 years, but would like to keep 10% available at 1 years' notice and 10% available within 3 months

    4% after tax?

    Premium Bonds could gobble up £150k of it and give ~4.1% tax free and is almost instant access but that doesn't cover the whole lot.

  • We have an ifs/wealth manager but at the low end of things.

    Am I guessing that if the lump sum is paying income tax then it will be bonus or shares of some kind?

    Generally I’ve found that the advice has mostly been:
    how to do things in the most tax efficient way
    Once you’ve got that licked what are you doing with your money to get you a return on it

  • Am I guessing that if the lump sum is paying income tax

    Nope.

    bonus or shares of some kind?

    I wish. I am a mere cog and not a big cheese.

    Sorry for being obtuse or not grateful for the replies so far but I don't want to explain much more without making certain parts of my private life public. I've nothing to hide and there's nothing nefarious going on but I'm not very anonymous here (things have got better now that much of the forum is not googleable any more). My manager3 will probably have read this and has nothing to be concerned about!

    Think of all the things that it could be (both good or bad) and then think why I might not want to have to explain the possible source of the money.

    It doesn't matter how/why. Just what would/could one do, and what kind of rates would one expect, if one suddenly had £500k to invest for a 4 year period that wasn't YOLO/FAFO money.

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