• f314@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    The lump sum will grow to be worth more than the annuity over the same period if properly invested

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        11 days ago

        plenty of people do, they just don’t have 400 million to do it with

        like my brother used the cheapo student loans here in sweden to just chuck a bunch of money into low-risk index funds (i think that’s the term) and he’s gotten 2000 bucks from that for basically 0 effort.

        now imagine doing that with millions of dollars