Still not spent your 2007 bonus? Why not spend a few minutes looking through The Banker’s list of ways you could try to turn it into millions. All three of the friends and family members used as examples took a chance on investments that returned more than 1000% of their original stake. A cousin invested in the early days of Microsoft and her early investment paid off so handsomely that she was able to retire decades before her working colleagues.
A former colleague bought Gazprom shares in the weeks following the Russian rouble devaluation in 1998 and watched his shares climb by more than 1500% as economic confidence returned. And a neighbour sold his house to buy property in Buenos Aires in 2002 following the 80% devaluation of the Argentinian peso. His money went a long way, helping him to build a multi-million dollar property portfolio in just a few years.