Hey everyone, I'm looking for some advice on where to allocate some surplus cash I have. For reference I'm a 1st year IB associate (A2A) in a mid-COL city. I max out my 401(k) and HSA, contribute to a high-yield savings account (2%+ APR) for emergency-fund purposes, and the rest goes into my checking account (just b/c it's there doesn't mean I spend it, I have good discipline). I've earned enough to this point that I'm starting to feel that I have too much surplus cash in my checking account (I wanted to have a decent amount built up for future purchases, as once I contribute to the other three accounts I mentioned earlier, that money will not be touched). I don't want to contribute much more to the HY savings account than the 15% I'm currently doing, but I don't know what else to put my money in that would be tax advantaged. IRAs are out of the question due to the income limits, and I feel like investing in individual stocks, ETFs, or low-cost mutual funds is a waste if there's no tax advantage to it. Are there any investment vehicles that I'm missing? My main objective is to get tax-advantaged savings/capital gains somewhere in a high growth investment. On a side note, I am too risk averse to own real estate for investment purposes.
Thanks.
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If you're maxing out HSA and 401k, don't want real estate then unfortunately there aren't many options left (until you hit accredited investor and qualified purchaser levels and can talk PE/hedge funds etc. but those don't benefit much on tax either). They are rolling out qualified opportunity zone funds that you can take a look at, but frankly it's still real estate and a large chunk of the benefit in those is that you already have large cap gains that you're rolling into it (to defer to 2026/get % tax break on gain. If you're ok with lower returns, Municipal bonds (tax free) and often much less risky, but I mean if this is retirement money, you're 23 in banking, you can afford some equities/volatility for bigger gains on average long run.
In your situation I would say dollar cost averaging/low cost index funds is the way to go, sorry to not be of more help.
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