You have big amount at the age of 30 you should not invest all money at one place, Fixed term deposit, stock market, mutual fund and gold silver is idea to invest. Divide your money in such instruments investment so that you can earn good income and return
$20k in each of 18 stocks, representing the best in their fields, and $40k for day trading.
WMT, KO, AAPL, VZ, D, CAT, etc
Your goal: $2,500,000 in 20 years.
Forget bonds, put it into SPY (S&P 500), and five great stocks in diverse fields: AAPL, PPG, NKE, SBUX, PX and reinvest their dividends. Since these stocks pay generally 2% to 3% a year, you should be able to have growth in excess of that each year PLUS market growth, $400K should grow substantially to over $600K+
At that age, you'd probably want to go aggressive - stocks and the like tend to do better over time although there's significant variation year-to-year.
Full scale hydroponics set up. grow room as big as Costco. Grow the best and make it so good its like a fine wine to wealthy people. start a study to find the biggest yields and thc levels excess of 35%.
If you were given $400k at 30, how would you invest it for 20 years to combat inflation and let it grow? How much could it potentially become at age 50?