Hi folks and welcome to the meaningful money podcast. This is session number 491.

Yes, welcome back to another quick in-between episode. Today I'm talking to Ted Morrell

of a very interesting website called Picker Fund, which I think has the potential to really help a lot

of people find the funds they want to invest in a lot more easily than the currently available options

on the internet. So look forward to chatting with Ted. I've honestly been really quiet on the

podcast here for a few weeks. COVID finally got me and completely messed up the rhythm of getting

podcasts and videos out. Symptoms actually were not too bad in general, thank God for vaccinations,

but it just knocked me for six really energy wise. Plus I had some holiday booked and all that,

but worry not, we are back with Avengers now. The first episode of season 25 will be up next week

and I'm looking forward to getting stuck into a new season with Rodge. I'll explain a little bit

more about what's that's going to be about after my conversation with Ted, which is coming to you

right now. Remember notes and links at the show notes, meaningful money.tv slash session 491. Here we go.

Well, it's my pleasure to welcome Ted Morrell to the meaningful money podcast. Ted, how are you doing

so you doing well? Hi, Peter. Thank you very much for inviting me to your podcast. Pleasure to

participate and we're really happy that you're taking an interest in in Beaker Fund as well.

Yeah, we're I'm looking forward to this because in fact, before we get into that, actually just I

always like to start with people's background if that's okay. So just basically you know who you are,

what it is that you're doing now, which all obviously leaders into Beaker Fund, but kind of how

you got to that point, right? So a little bit of your backstory if that's okay. I'm one of the

free partners behind the Beaker Fund project. We are a team of three, three called partners.

We come from the banking industry. Our background is equity derivatives trading. We've been doing

that at various banks for 15 to 20 years. And yeah, we know each other because we we we used to work

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