Building Wealth In A Low Return World
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This series we’re talking about Building Wealth. But with interest rates at record lows for more than eight years, and with share markets seemingly more volatile than ever, how do you build wealth in a reasonable timescale? Today I’m going to sharing some practical steps to building wealth in a low-return world.
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Building wealth in a low return world
Plenty of people will try and sell you a get-rich-quick scheme. And plenty of folks, including me, will try to suggest that the best way is to build wealth slowly. But none of us want to put our lives on hold for fifty years while we scrape enough together to retire on. Is it really possible to save out of income and put enough aside to become financially independent?
I think the answer is a resounding ‘yes’ but we may need to think a little bit laterally to achieve our aims.
In this session, you'll discover:
- That no-one builds wealth by saving money in a bank
- The tools that successful investors have at their disposal
- The miracle of compounding and how to harness it
- How to stay focused on your wealth-building
- Why you shouldn't take too little risk
- Why it is important to look for total return
- The best way to use gearing
- Why you should be prepared to think outside the usual investment box
- And the one aspect of your wealth-building that you can really control
Resources mentioned in this show
Podcast: Risk, Volatility & Timescale
Podcast: Risk Tolerance and Risk Capacity
Podcast: Cashflow or Capital Gains, with Buck Joffrey
Risk Profile: myrisktolerance.com I
nvesting Course: Learn How To Invest
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season four, episode four. |
| 0:04.1 | Well then let's cruise, baby. |
| 0:06.7 | Low and slow. |
| 0:13.3 | This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. |
| 0:18.2 | My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to |
| 0:20.9 | know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. I'm here to help you make |
| 0:25.6 | sense of money. Here we are once again. Great to have you with me. Thank you for joining me. It's very early in the morning again. I seem to be always recording these at something past seven in the morning. And my voice never quite feels warmed up. I was singing and shouting in the car on the way into the office to record this, but it doesn't seem to have done much good, warming up my voice. But never mind, thank you for joining me. |
| 0:55.9 | This season, we've been talking about building wealth, okay? |
| 0:58.5 | This is season four, episode four. |
| 1:01.3 | Traditionally, building wealth has been a long-term plan, right? |
| 1:04.8 | But with interest rates, having been at record lows now for more than eight years, |
| 1:10.8 | share markets seemingly more volatile |
| 1:12.9 | than ever, how do you build wealth in a reasonable time scale? Nobody wants to build wealth over |
| 1:17.7 | like 80 years, right? Today, I want to try and share some practical steps to building wealth in a low |
| 1:23.8 | return world, such as we're in right now, and I think probably likely to be in for a long |
| 1:29.7 | time to come. So that's what we're talking about today. After we've gone over all that, I'll |
| 1:34.3 | look at some reviews that have been left, announce what we're going to be talking about next time |
| 1:37.1 | and things like that. Before any of that, though, remember, this podcast is brought to you with a very |
| 1:40.8 | kind help of my friends at seven investment Management. They're a firm of investment managers based in London, and they specialize in multi-asset investing, |
| 1:48.6 | which brings institutional level investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. |
| 1:53.4 | 7.m. put their name to the show and to my site, because they believe in what I'm doing, |
| 1:58.2 | which is trying to get easy to understand good quality |
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