How would you invest $25k in the current market?

Given Corona hitting market values hard, where would you look to put in around $25k of cash? I was thinking ViacomCBS because they seem to have been getting hit way too hard proportionally, but looking at what others are doing.

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"Incoming Analyst in IB - Ind" Second passing on VIAC - stocked tanked as a result of Q4 2019 earnings miss and kept going down then got hit like the rest of the market.

Crowded market for sure - but if you strip the thing down and literally just license out their owned content, its worth more than an $8B company.

Plus their ad supported OTT Network Pluto.Tv has more than increased its audience by 250% during this crises. They may be the #1 leader in ad supported OTT right now.

 

Assuming I'll hold for atleast 3-5 years, my risk allocation would look something like this:

35% US equities (VTI)
20% 20y+ treasuries (TLT)
20% TIPS (VTIP)
15% Gold (GLD)
10% Commodity trend following

I would usually have more in treasuries and equities, and less in commodities and TIPS...but I'm not confident those will still deliver with rates at this level and what I believe to be an inflationary future once this blows over.

 

Tbh this makes sense for someone older but if hes young idk why he wouldn't have a more aggressive port. I dont think 20 year olds need to be holding treasuries...

 

How old are you? I see you're working at HF so I'm assuming closer to 30 than 20? I guess it makes sense if you're older, but I don't get why you'd have this allocation if you're younger...Are you just worried about volatility in your annual comp?

 

Buying a lot of oil companies, between $1 billion and $10 billion market cap, I bought a lot of OXY stock. There are a lot of small to mid cap oil producers that have enough cash to keep going for a few quarters without running into too much trouble.

 

Same. Lots of upside in oil prices right now with a potential production cut and a pick up in demand from a recovery from coronavirus.

 

Oil can only go up from here, I mean how much can it really drop? Even if they can't cut back barrel production that much.

 

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