Pay down the mortgage?
Money · Board of 3A €40k inheritance. The mortgage has €210k left at 3.9%, fixed for six more years. We have €6k in savings and two kids. Overpay the mortgage, invest in an index fund, or both?
Chief of staff
Your family’s money and three reasonable answers — worth a board. I’d seat The CFO, The Analyst and The Skeptic.
The CFOFinancial Controller
The AnalystData Expert
The SkepticRisk Assessor
The board’s call
Keep €15k as a cushion, overpay €15k on the mortgage, and invest €10k in the fund over the next ten months.
€6k in savings is about one bad month with two kids, so the cushion comes first. The overpayment is a guaranteed 3.9%; the rest goes in pieces, so no single month decides it.

The Analyst disagreed
“Over twenty years a broad index fund has usually beaten 3.9%. Overpaying trades expected return for comfort — fine, but say it out loud.”
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