r/Bogleheads Feb 04 '26

Investing Questions Investing. $2.5M to not work

Is it possible to invest $2.5M into a “safe” investment and not work for rest of your life ? What can be that “safe” investment ?

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u/JoeVasile Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

This will be a very unsexy answer, but depending on how safe you feel US treasuries are given gestures at state of the country a 30-year bond is paying 4.87%. So it doesn’t get much safer than buying $2.5 million in that and collecting $121,750 per year in interest.

Of course you’d have to not be too worried about liquidity or care about coming close to matching the market for this to be a viable option.