jason said:
"Maybe you can advise us all what is the "safest" investment to do with a million now."
Nope. If you read the rest of the forums, you'll note elsewhere I've mentioned that we do take all those risk scenarios into consideration when we make our asset allocations.
The stability of the US government backed investments is of concern to us at the moment. We will likely make a foreign currency play in our next reallocation process.
But, I am not a financial planner, and it has never been my intent to play one here. May be you are one? If you'll notice when I replied to the OP, t'was saying what "I" would do.
Having just inherited not one but two large sums of money, the answer is no, Jason, I don't believe we'll be handing over our money to you.
And, I would rather have the people in my life than the money they so nicely bestowed.
FYI: I would consider myself to have a fairly high risk tolerance, however, that does not stop me from considering all those doomsday scenarios you so nicely laid out for us when we decide where to put our dollars - and right now the actions of the current WH administration have me very concerned.