When you own a business, you typically have three good options for what to do with the profits: Invest for growth. Invest for margins. Build up your cash reserves.
I don't have any general advice for investing cash in market speculation because I'm flat out bad at it.
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Speculation is one thing, investing in managed funds(i.e. index matching funds) or bonds is another.
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Those are less risky options if you have a bunch of money burning a hole in your pocket. You're still speculating, just now speculating on the market instead of against the market. Still "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" behaviour, IMO.
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Taleb's term for making big bets, with small returns, against an unlikely catastrophe.
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As a long term investment strategy, anything of that nature tends to have crummy performance.
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