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High yield savings, money markets, CDs, or T bills? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bytor9@lemmy.ml to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

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Where all my cash hoarders at and where do you park your savings?

Also, how do you decide how much cash to hold vs invest?

Personally I enrolled in Robinhood Gold for the 4.9% APY. It costs $5/month.

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[–] EntropicalVacation@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Most of my savings is in IRAs, which are mostly invested in Vanguard index funds. I try to keep about what I’d need to live on for a year in short-term investments and high-yield savings, any extra in some longer-term investments. I have a couple of CDs, some T bills, an I bond, some stocks. I’ve been shifting money around lately depending on where the best interest rates are.

Bread Savings has a 4.88% rate (5% APY) right now, no fees. The T bills have rates between about 5.3% and 5.5%. Right now, even 4-week T bills have rates over 5%.

[–] Maybe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SNAXX is yielding 5.37%.

It really depends on why you’re holding the cash though- how long you plan on sitting on it. At some point it probably makes sense to lock in a longer duration t-bill/note.

I generally avoid holding cash unless there’s a specific spending goal in the next 3ish years.