How to invest $100,000: Top 6 things to do
Here’s how to invest $100,000 and what you need to watch out for.
6 min read
Mar 18, 2025
Erin Kennedy
Senior editor, Investing
EXPERTISE
- Investing
- Personal finance
- Retirement
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's degree in history, University of Michigan
Bankrate senior investing editor Erin Kennedy has spent over a dozen years editing and publishing in the financial media space. Her longtime goal has been to help educate people on topics in finance that can seem dull or too complex, and she embraces a reader-centered mindset.
Kennedy has worked on stock recommendations, newsletters, articles, reports and commentaries, in addition to managing several sites. She likes investing in relatively boring equities and ETFs, with the occasional spicy stock thrown in for good measure.
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