I have some savings around $50k (minus what emergency funds for rainy days). Where should I be placing them?

Self-managing after reading some good ETF books is feasible.

here somethings already, I have written up, particularly what not to do:

https://seedly.sg/questions/what-is-your-genera...

you could start with part of your funds buying an MSCI World ACWI ETF, that would be a worldwide diversified stock investment. Other alternative: simple SP500 ETF investing.

To be fair, most advisors would also recommend to buy Bond ETFs, but I'm not a fan of bonds. You need a lot of patience, do not sell during drop downs, don't buy single stocks. You need at least 5-10 years to see that with passive indexing on average (annualized % performance) you are successful. And this is maybe the only rather probable way a retail investor can actually be successful, then property and gold possibly also lead to some stability of your assets.

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