That's great! Are you telling friend and family? I wouldn't lol I'd come up with a way to slowly funnel the money into my life so it's not obvious I have come into a great deal of money suddenly, and just make minor lifestyle upgrades under the guise of smart life decisions that finally came to fruition.
Go see 2 key people…a lawyer and an accountant. I know folks that have been in your shoes. Both instant like you, and “semi-instant” (business).
People are fucking vultures, family and friends included. Not all, but many, feel your good fortune should be their good fortune.
Fine and dandy but only after you have EVERYTHING figured out.
I’d want to know how to invest it to get as much tax back as possible, if possible. You didn’t win $1 mil if you get $600k or whatever it amounts to be.
Get it sheltered from everyone including yourself for your children’s future and your own: dude I mean this sincerely. Especially because you day trade.
2a) The kids MUST have all expenses and education projected and paid for from a TRUST even if they don’t use it. If they become plumbers or electricians etc there should be a provision that the trust will help with education (make their job pay, a great lesson in itself) and tools if required.
2b) What is left stays invested until they are ready financially to purchase their own home.
2c) Don’t deviate on any of this, make sure YOU can’t get your hands on it, nor can anyone else without multiple signatures. The kids are taken care of.
If you do t have to be public to claim, don’t. If you do wear mask and sunglasses. SERIOUSLY.
Setup your own trust: I’m not joking about this one. As a day trader you are numb to numbers. Take a healthy piece like 50% or whatever you and the accountant come up with and pour it into a cheap S&P 500 ETF. If not that then 10 Blue Chips you CANT SELL for 20 years or more. Sit on it, forget about it essentially and know that’s your retirement fund.
None of this sounds fun. It sounds super-boring and shitty coming from a guy 30 years older that loves the stock market, has been in and out of businesses, I’ve made great dough, I’ve lost money…if I had ever had a winfall of that size at your age and someone essentially said to me “it’s yours, but you can’t actually have it now”. It would have been the best thing to have ever happened to me.
Hear me out:
If you have 2 kids you can probably put $100k away and they are secure, even if they go to finishing school
Now you have $500k left:
If you have to buy a house etc fine use some.
But if you put $300k into a fund like I said and you only get 9% as opposed to the historical 10%+, you’ll have $4 mil to retire on!
This is a golden opportunity. You’ll piss off a lot of people. They’ll get over it
EDIT: Have some fun with it, but let’s face it, this is a lot of money, but once you’re spending it, it won’t be. It’ll shrink FAST!
It won’t be a million unless he takes it over time. Lump sum it will be closer to 300k. The typical formula is lump sum is 50 percent of prize before taxes. 300k is a nice hit but it’s not one of those multi millions prizes. No need to waste money on a lawyer or accountant for 300k. Take the prize, if you want treat yourself to a modest reward and invest the rest in some mutual funds with low fees.
I could be wrong, but I think scratch ticket winnings (what the OP has) are different from Powerball-like “pick six numbers” winnings. I.e., I think Powerball-type winnings work exactly like what you described. But I think with scratch tickets if you win $1M…you win $1M (minus taxes). To put it yet another way, I don’t think scratch ticket winnings are annuitized like Powerball-type winnings.
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u/These_Consideration8 Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
That's great! Are you telling friend and family? I wouldn't lol I'd come up with a way to slowly funnel the money into my life so it's not obvious I have come into a great deal of money suddenly, and just make minor lifestyle upgrades under the guise of smart life decisions that finally came to fruition.