All governments are creating an environment forcing you to buy equity. Interest rate is so low that holding CD is not beating inflation. Any reasonable stocks will give you 2% dividend return, providing no erosion in principle. Safest bet is to buy big blue chips or utilities. Happy investing.

Btw: if you had been holding on stock since 2008 then you should be doing very well.

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