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I have a small part of my savings invested in the company I work for (about 15% or so); it's had 10-25% interest every year for its ten year existence and I have confidence enough in my company. The rest is divided between savings and a traditional bank account (about half, which is still enough to pay the rent and such for a year), and various investment products (some traditional shares, I'm at a few hundred in profit on those if I decide to sell now, and an investment fund that spreads it out over many stocks).

The safe option - stashing it in a savings account - is not worth your while; interest rates on savings account over here have dived below 1% now, which means that you're actually making a loss on them if you add inflation and increased taxes and such to it. Moving part to a higher risk, but higher interest rate is worth it to me. Even if the interest on the investments would be just 2%, it's still better than a savings account.