Lottery winners that invest their winnings

Reply #6

LottoBoner — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:58:26 GMT

when i win, i will invest my money in cocoa beans, soybeans and orange juice futures!!

(from the jerk and trading places

Reply #5

haymaker — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:00:31 GMT

........they will go unnoticed by the media because its not sensational.

Reply #4

zinniagirl — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:06:02 GMT

Brad Duke is an example of what you are asking for.

Reply #3

gogidolim — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:32:41 GMT

But if the winner has some extraordinary success in investing the principal...

Reply #2

haymaker — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:06:43 GMT

makes sense to me, media is not really interested in things that work out well.

its just not sensational enough.

Reply #1

gogidolim — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:57:28 GMT

Probably that kind of winners will try their best to stay out of media attention. They may hire some publicists to hide their things.

Lottery winners that invest their winnings

NoShame — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:22:58 GMT

This might be a dumb question but we constantly hear about lottery winners that lose their winnings but how come we never hear about lottery winners that successfully invested their winnings to make even more money? Is such a thing even possible? I know such winners would be incredibly rare if they are and I know investing is not an easy thing. Though you gotta wonder though if someone managed to use their winnings and successfully earned more millions through proper investment.

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