Where to invest 45k?

Hey guys,

I'm a recent college grad starting my first role in the industry. I've saved up about 65,000 from a combination of the new job, working part time on and off since high school, and from saving the bulk of my earnings from finance internships during my summers. I have about 20,000 invested in a blend of ETFs and growth stocks that I feel have upside potential, but I have about 45k that's sitting in my IRA and my brokerage account that's split between cash and short term Treasurys. I'm a little hesitant to start making big investments right now given the 50%+ rally in US equities, but I also acknowledge the fact that I have a 40 year time horizon.

Would appreciate any insight you guys might have about how you'd approach investing a lump sum given the current market environment.

 

Thats an impressive build up of savings you were able to accomplish, fuck me couldve had a good chunk more saved if I didn't spend on a lot of jackassery in college lol. I've got like ~20k ish right now, half in equities split between roth contributing 15% salary then the rest from HS/College savings in a brokerage, sitting on the rest in cash building up a rainy day/waiting for the next market correction hopefully coming sometime this year, when/if that comes I'm gonna dump into index/ETFs, won't be a ton but'll be a good start. I missed out on the absurd rally as I've been focused on building up that rainy day.

 

Um... Emergency fund? It's obviously not sexy, but if your boss says "F*** it, I need to cut costs tomorrow do you have six months of expenses saved up in a liquid account? An IRA is a bad place to hold this to begin with but not having it at all is worse.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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