What are your thoughts?

If you had 50K to put towards an investment today, what would you do?

There's always the option of calling your financial advisor and getting him to give you the speech about risk/reward and then review your personal goals regarding long-term retirement plans...and that very well may be the best option. However, having an advisor get a big return on managing the relationship without any risk, regardless of how well the fund management does, isn't exactly exciting.

I've seen past posts on successful strategies that have worked, but didn't internalize what they were doing at the time. Anyone know of board members with proven ideas that have worked for them?