The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast

Pete Matthew
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Oct 18, 2019 • 5min

The importance of PERSPECTIVE (and reinvesting income) - 5MF057

Listener Chris called me out on a comment I made in a recent episode of the podcast, talking about long term returns of stock markets. Turns out that income reinvestment REALLY matters, and that it's important to take a long term view.
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Oct 16, 2019 • 25min

Robust Reviews

Over the past few weeks we've looked at setting goals and building plans to achieve those goals. But working towards financial independence can take a while, and you need to know whether or not you're on track as you go along. And you do that by having a robust review process in place.
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Oct 11, 2019 • 7min

The Greatest Personal Finance Book Ever?

The Maven Adviser calls J L Collins' 'The Simple Path To Wealth' the greatest personal finance book ever, and I'm inclined to agree. Here's my review of the book.
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Oct 9, 2019 • 26min

The One-Page Financial Plan

Over the past few weeks, we've looked how to set some goals and how to move from goals to actions. Today I'd like to help you distil all that down so that you end up with a one-page financial plan.
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Oct 2, 2019 • 26min

From Goals To Actions Pt 2

Last week we considered our goals and our actions from a 40,000 foot perspective and talked about things you can do from that vantage point. Today we need to drop down to the runway level, and get a little bit more granular…
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Sep 27, 2019 • 5min

DON'T invest from platform buy lists

The recent scandal over the Woodford funds included concern over why, when the fund was struggling, it was still on various platform buy lists. Here's why those lists have no relevance to your investing needs.
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Sep 25, 2019 • 28min

From Goals To Actions - Part 1

In the past couple of weeks we have looked at financial planning and introduced the timeline paradigm. Last week we looked at how to arrive at and work back from some goals to get a sense of what you need to do now to move towards those goals. Today, we need to move from goals to actions.
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Sep 18, 2019 • 23min

Setting Financial Goals

Last week we covered the basic premise of financial planning, introducing the concept of the timeline of your life. Today I want to build on that, and use that model to help us think about some goals.
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Sep 13, 2019 • 7min

What would I do with a MAJOR WINDFALL?

Listener John asks what I would do with a major windfall - I mean REALLY major. That's an opportunity for some thinking...
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Sep 11, 2019 • 28min

What IS Financial Planning?

This season of the MeaningfulMoney podcast is called Planning with Purpose and is designed for those well-established on their journey towards financial independence. But if we're talking about planning, then we'd better define what we mean by that…

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