My husband and I just recently received an inheritance of $180K. He's 51 and I'm 42. We've just recently paid our house off which is currently worth $350K. We both have money in 401K's but it isn't alot since we had to pay for the kids college, credit card bills and a house payment. Now that these are all a thing of the past we are now in a positon to save a great deal of what we both make. We're looking at retirement in 10-12 years (me included;will work part time). We have just signed up for the maxium with deferred comp $20K a year), we have $300K in decent intrest saving account and would like to invest the $180K we recently received. My question is what suggestions do you have for investment ideas..we we're going to put some in CD's but we know that's not enough. Anyone have other suggestions that don't require big risks? We're searching for a financial advisor but haven't found one yet but in the interim we need to put it somewhere for 1-2 yrs. Thanks so much!