Cash plays an important role in the Bedokian Portfolio, a pool of liquidity that could be deployed to the other four asset classes (equities, real estate investment trusts or REITs, bonds and commodities). Cash injections, through regular contributions from disposable income, dividends from equities, distributions from REITs, coupons from bonds and interest from cash, contribute to this pool.
What if one could get more bang for the buck from this liquid pool?
Sounds a bit contradictory as cash is meant to be readily deployable capital. Unless the cash is in physical form and locked away in a safe or a metal container of a famous powdered malt-drink, it is still earning something depending on where it is.
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Where Else To Put Cash?
The first obvious place is the basic bank savings account, which is around 0.05% based on what I had seen from bank websites. The next bank offering would be fixed deposits that...