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Assuming that my syndicate win the lottery tonight and I’ve cleared my mortgage I’ll have £1.6m to live off. I’ll be out of work as the factory will close. 90% of the workforce will also have £1.6m and most of them cleared their mortgages when they won £4m between them a few years ago.

What amount of interest will I get per annum if I invest £1.5m?

Would it be enough to live off?

I’m a man of simple tastes so I don’t need to get a gold plated Lamborghini, a helicopter, extensive cosmetic surgery, a tiger or a Ukrainian sex slave.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 1:55 pm
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last week I got both star numbers right, started looking at the five numbers, got first, second and third right...... then my fortune tailed off into a £30.16 abyss. i was quite annoyed. i deserved to win.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 1:58 pm
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Surley get 5% for that much cash. That's 75k a year OK at todays prices.
Get your own ticket and win the lot. Everyone needs a Ukrainian sex slave 8)


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:00 pm
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for me id buy a mountain and stick a chairlift on it and turn it into a dh bike park

id also probably build a castle on top, id quite like a castle


 
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Surley get 5% for that much cash.

You would get more than that - spread it across several onshore and offshore accounts and I reckon you could easily clear 12%


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:01 pm
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What amount of interest will I get per annum if I invest £1.5m

Not as much as you think, after tax about £40k and £45k. Given around 4% ish intrest.

Also you need to think about inflation at around 4%, so you'd need re invest that amount just so your lump sum stand still 🙂

Best blow the lot and look for another job.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:02 pm
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Sorry to disappoint you, but I intend to win the jackpot outright tonight 😉


 
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You would get more than that - spread it across several onshore and offshore accounts and I reckon you could easily clear 12%

Not as easy as it sounds, I wish it was mate 😉


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:03 pm
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I recommend you give it to someone who knows how to live. I mean, no sex slave? What kind of a wierdo are you..


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:04 pm
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i'd buy deadlydarcy a new wing mirror


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:04 pm
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iDave my biggest lottery win was £20 a few months back. I was really really excited for about 10 minutes before checking online.

Got a really nice plant with the winnings though. 😀


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:05 pm
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i'd buy deadlydarcy a new wing mirror

A heated one?


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:06 pm
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[i]What would I do[/i].... Enjoy myself


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:13 pm
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Checks lottery site for jackpot size. £138M. You were all keeping that quiet. That's the kind of prize level I actually buy a ticket for. Never had more than one number match 🙁


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:14 pm
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i had the both the star numbers and all the others offset by 10 a couple of weeks ago. I'm thinking make the italian girl from the poker ad on the piratebay an offer she can't refuse if i win. best not tell the wife though.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:17 pm
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surely the sensible thing to do would be to reinvest
in more lottery tickets
you might be on a roll


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:17 pm
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You'll be lucky if you get 3% on low risk investments or savings. Then the tax man will want a share, as will your accountant, at about 1% of the fund.


 
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Not as easy as it sounds, I wish it was mate

I guess I could be totally wrong, but I am not thinking savings accounts, I am thinking a mix of safe and risky investments.

Hell, given the state of the Stock Market today, you could invest heavily across some of the big fallers in the Top 100 in the last week and you would surely stand a chance of some decent returns over 12 months.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:31 pm
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tough one that @ 2% you could spend at only £2,800,000 a year and not effect your capital. but hey what the hell go for £10mil a year and see what comes first death or bankruptcy.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:32 pm
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I'm thinking hollowed out volcano, perhaps a nice swivel chair. Maybe some minions. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:35 pm
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This would be a good start:
[url= http://media.primelocation.com/SAGR/SACI/SACI_274182/BROCH_01.PDF ]http://media.primelocation.com/SAGR/SACI/SACI_274182/BROCH_01.PDF[/url]

Followed fairly quickly by a place in the alps, and a nice car to drive between the two.

Dave


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:35 pm
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With no mortgage £1.6m could go a long way, and if you didn't have to work you could live anywhere.

http://www.western-isles-property.co.uk/property.php?id=471

I reckon 1.6 million, plus a bit of interest would last you a lifetime unless you went mad, £40,000 a year would last you 40 years with no interest.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:37 pm
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but would you still come on STW and gloat, and would you be banned for being a smug bastard ?


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:38 pm
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Y'know I thought I'd just check this thread for a mention of heated wing mirrors, and funnily enough...

*shakes fist at 'Arry-le-Spidre and phillybuster*


 
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but would you still come on STW and gloat, and would you be banned for being a smug bastard ?

Hasn't happened yet, has it? 😉


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:41 pm
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i've yet to see £140mil of smugness on here. 🙂


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:43 pm
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Think with 140 mil I'd be starting a few new bike treads (every week)
🙂


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:50 pm
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Thats some syndicate!


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 2:53 pm
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One of these:

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Posted : 13/09/2011 3:44 pm
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Just seen sobriety's pic and changed my list. Thats stunning


 
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Havn't you heard, nobody will be winning the Euro-millions tonight as my syndicate are due to win it at the weekend. At which point it will be well over £160m and I will have around £27m to play with. After indulging myself a little in the first few months I think I could put the remaining £20m in a savings account. I will probably stay at work because I would get bored not working.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 4:15 pm
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You'll be lucky if you get 3% on low risk investments or savings

really? I get just over 2% on less than 500 quid at the moment.

A very quick look on money supermarket has a savings account for 3.12% for a grand deposit. A fixed rate bond can get you 3.85% so I'm guessing a bit of digging would get you 5% no problem.


 
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I would like to win the lot and become the feudal baron of my village .Where I own everything and everyone works for me .I would own all the pubs and ban the sale of lager as well.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 4:56 pm
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But you'd pay a large part of that back to the taxman.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 5:37 pm
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I would be over the moon if I won enough to pay off my mortgage.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 6:19 pm
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I'd buy a new bike but I never win so will have to save and buy myself a new frame in Jan sales etc.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 6:38 pm
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You would make more money with a few BTL than leave it in the bank i should think.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 6:45 pm
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A nice spot of land

http://search.knightfrank.com/cho100185


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 7:25 pm
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or maybe this then ban any further stone being exported off the island

http://search.knightfrank.com/edn100158

👿


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 7:32 pm
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@ Houns, have you got something against curling?

i'd move away from Munich centre and buy a cottage with a wood burning stove, miles from anywhere and sit in my pants all day (assuming it is warm), build a pump track in the garden and set up a hydroponic green house (due to my love of tomatoes).

i'd buy another small house nearer town so the GF has somewhere to live during the week.

i'd pay off the mortgages for close family members (and i've got a big family).

i'd pimp out my current bikes and buy a new one (two, maybe).

i'd buy a year lift pass for Tirol and Bavaria.

i'd get a cat.

i'd laud it over the in-laws.

i'd import crates of Greene King Abbott Ale.

i'd call up some old friends and have debauched evenings that i'd want to forget.

i'd invest as much as i could and give money to causes that hit a nerve.


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 10:23 pm
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[i]I would be over the moon if I won enough to pay off my mortgage[/i]

You & me both pal, It's all I hope for!


 
Posted : 13/09/2011 10:46 pm
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+1 one that, and I could just walk straight out of the job that I'm rapidly getting more and more pissed off with, along with most of the others I work with. I'd buy a kitted out van and just start travelling, going to see all the beautiful parts of the world I've never had the money to see before. A Nikon D3s, a pocket full of memory cards and a MacBook Air.
Oh, and a credit card or two. No worries about paying them off each month.


 
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Yeh - I won 😆

Now, what to spend my winnings on....
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I think some cider!
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If I can find a really cheap pub I might get 2 pints 😉


 
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I have decided what I would get. [url=

Jones[/url],she could sing in my shower 🙂


 
Posted : 14/09/2011 2:23 pm
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ciderinsport, me too!

Might pop in to my local and buy a half on the way home! 😳


 
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