Where do I put my money to invest now with all the financial issues currently occurring?

My Retirement fund was losing over a hundred dollars a day so I pulled it and now I would like to reinvest in something safe. Help

I bet you never assessed your risk tolerance or learned about diversification...and now you've sold low - a big no-no when it comes to investing. Did you need that money right away? No, since you're looking to invest it again. You should have stayed invested.

You are making all the mistakes.

Now you have a chance to learn what to do...really learn...before you do something like this again. Here's a website that has links to risk assessment quizzes, teaches how to properly diversify your assets and how to avoid making big and costly mistakes:

http://www.saveyournestegg.com/diy.html

People that follow a few simple principles are getting the best returns. Those principles are:

1. Do not chase past returns. People that buy funds because they have done well in the past are doing exactly that.

2. Do not market time. Market timing is buying based on your (or your newsletter, or your TV, or neighbor's) guess about what is going to happen in the future. Even if someone knows something, you've already missed the boat. The price already reflects what you just found out.

3. Use index funds. Over time, index funds outperform actively managed funds, mostly because they do not have those high expense ratios. Some actively managed funds do beat their index, but the ones that do usually do not do so consistently. So why gamble? Use index funds. If you want to use a few actively managed funds, make sure that the costs are very low. Vanguard has some good ones.

5. Diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Own a mix of bonds, domestic equities (large, small and mid cap funds), an international fund and perhaps a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) and emerging market fund. Four to six funds is all you need. Know your risk tolerance and set up an appropriate asset allocation. Rebalance as needed.

6. Consider taxes. Use the least tax efficient funds in your tax-deferred accounts and the most tax efficient funds in your taxable accounts

Treasury bond mutual funds and/or money market funds. If you had a crystal ball and could tell when the market will bottom out then you could get back into the Dow Industrial compents since they will be a bargin at their lowest prices and will eventually recover but it might take a few years. I'm sticking with treasuries.

Hard to say without knowing what country you live in. Do you have a financial investor? Who was looking after your retirement fund? This isn't a good time to take a blind leap into something - get some expert help. There are lots of bargains out there right now - great stocks of proven value that will go back up as soon as this panic mentality settles down. The media isn't helping, by jumping on every little twitch in the market.
If everyone pulls in their horns and stops buying, businesses go under. That means people lose their jobs, have no money to buy things, and the cycle accelerates.
If people just stay calm, and let things settle down it will all work out okay.
In the Great Depression, the government cut spending to the bone. People lost jobs, factories and businesses closed, and social assistance was given out in a mean spirited and tight fisted manner. But when the war broke out, there were suddenly lots of jobs. Prosperity came back with a bang and everyone had money to spend.
So where did all that money come from to pay for the factories and hire the workers? It was there all along - just kept in a sock under the mattress, stuffed into government coffers and not allowed to circulate.
The way to get out of this mess is make a budget, stick to it, try to keep your debt under control. And don't panic.

Have you considered managed funds in foreign exchange trading? http://jsforex.blogspot.com

Buy Gold! Could buy the ETF "GLD" that tracks the price of Gold.

Go with Gold http://www.investingoldandsilver.com/

The values have been going up for a millennium.

market manipulation by the centeral banks and smart money...

IMF meeting this weekend... I personally believe it is a currency war...

We'll lose... gold/silver...

do your own due diligence...

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