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    Has Tom Brady signed up here yet ?

    Apparently he's got a $15M bonus coming to him if he waits to retire until after Feb 4. I think even for Brady, that may be worth delaying the announcement by a week, no?
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    Transferring money to Europe

    As a few other posters have already mentioned, I use "wise" (formerly transferwise). After living in the USA for 8 years (and 15 out of the last 19), we moved from the USA back to Europe (Netherlands) in fall 2019 (due to both COVID and visa challenges). Of course, 95% of our money was in...
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    For the first time ever I sold all my stocks

    I'm another good test case here. I manage my wife's and my account. With my wife's account, we sold nothing but went a little more aggressive into technology near the lows. She has fully recovered from March lows and is up 3% vs. S+P this year. With my account I took money off the table...
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    Your best W*rk related PERKS!

    So I'm a bit late to this party, but had some great perks. I used to work for NBC Universal about 10 years ago in LA for about 3 years total: - Office on the Universal Studios Lot - Summer hours (half day Fridays from Memorial day to Labor day) - Went to the Grammys in the NBCU suite (+ after...
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    What would you do

    Thanks for insight so far. Reason for a 5 year horizon is due to US immigration status ... likely need to move back to Europe in ~5 years and expect to need to use (some of) these funds to bridge the move, startup costs there, house down payment etc. Mortgage interest = 3.125% on a 30 year...
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    What would you do

    Hi there. Long time lurker, first time poster here. I have a cash position of about $150K which is ~20% of net worth. I keep wanting to put it in the market, but it's at all time highs so not sure that is smart or not. I don't have a very long time horizon, maybe 5 years or so I...
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