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I'd take lump sum. A modest 7% return doubles your money in 12 years.

Another way of looking at it is $262 Million investment at 7% / year would yield roughly 18+ Million/year before capital gains. At 39.6% capital gains tax, that's still $11 Million a year without ever touching the $262 Million.

If you could get a better 10% return then that would grow to $26.2M/year or $15.7M/year - after tax - without ever touching the $262M.

Even if you spent every cent of that $15.7M/yr - after 25 years you'd still have $262M

It'd only take a six percent return to double it in 12 years.

I"d give 20 percent away to the charities of my choice, pay the obscene taxes and then work hard to keep the money from ruining my life and the lives of my relatives.

RTR,

Tim
 
I'd take the lump sum.It's up to 558 million now, pay the tax, and have about 334.8 million left.

Assuming I set aside 50 million to spend extravagantly the first year and buy all of my wants and provide for family/friends, simply placing the remainder in an interest bearing account as benign as a savings account at .03% generates 7k+ a month. While not extraordinary, 7k a month is nice pocket change.

With a host of other semi-liquid, higher yielding accounts out there, you could obviously generate a lot more return.
 
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