24 yo and pretty new to / nervous about investing — I started maybe 3 months ago and have been pretty successful (haven’t we all). I have $8k in stocks plus other retirement investments. Wondering if I should be investing more... How much of your total wealth should be in stocks versus just sitting in a savings account (e.g. as an emergency fund)? Thanks in advance!!

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As is it with Whiskey, finances depend on age. As a 20-something, you should feel comfortable with proportions being out of whack between equity and liquid savings. Personally I think you have to think of investment allocations and liquid cash savings in different units. I think of emergency funds as units of monthly expenses and then investments are in units of risk (ie. Allocations to bonds and equities)

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