Ep 537 - Vanguard LifeStrategy Global review & What to do if you missed the online self-assessment deadline
The Money To The Masses Podcast
Damien Fahy
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Damien looks at Vanguard's newly announced LifeStrategy "Global" range. He provides a back-tested comparison versus the existing LifeStrategy fund range to help you decide if these new funds could be a good fit for your portfolio. In addition, Damien discusses the changes to the existing LifeStrategy fund range that aims to remove their inherent "home bias".
Next, after it was revealed that approximately 1 million people missed the 31st January self-assessment tax deadline, Andy provides a reminder of who should have filed a return, as well as the steps you can take to appeal a penalty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 537 of the Money to the Masses podcast with your resident expert as always, Damien and me, Andy Leagues. |
| 0:07.6 | Damien, how are you doing? |
| 0:09.0 | Well, it's our birthday, Andy. |
| 0:10.8 | This week, Money to the Masses turned 16. |
| 0:14.8 | So that is quite incredible, really, to think that all those years ago when my daughter was born and I was on |
| 0:22.0 | paternity leave and the idea of Money to the Masses came about and I just started giving away |
| 0:27.3 | my knowledge when I worked in the city and just giving out some information to people to, that |
| 0:33.1 | is a blog post that that then grew into what we know today's money to the masses which includes obviously |
| 0:39.6 | this podcast the platform itself in terms of the website we've got our social channels and we've |
| 0:46.1 | obviously got 80-20 investor we've got the money which is our AI tool that helps answer your |
| 0:51.5 | money questions so we've come a long way and it's quite incredible |
| 0:55.3 | to think 16 years on that we are still going. And the other thing that I learned this week is |
| 1:01.7 | that technically we share the same birthday as Elmo from Sesame Street, which was a revelation to me. |
| 1:09.3 | I knew that we shared the same birthday as Facebook, but we also |
| 1:12.4 | shared the same birthday as Elmo, who is a bit of a cult hero. Yeah, and so if you want to help |
| 1:17.5 | money to the masses turn 18, get to adulthood, maybe go to university, get to 21 and beyond, |
| 1:22.8 | then please do share everything that we do in all the usual ways. And of course, an easy thing |
| 1:27.1 | that you can do right now is pause the usual ways. And of course, an easy thing that you can do |
| 1:27.7 | right now is pause the podcast and comment on this show. Maybe wish us a happy 16th birthday, |
| 1:33.6 | many happy returns, even if it's just an emoji, a birthday cake, a candle, a balloon. That'll be |
| 1:38.2 | fantastic because it really does help the Spotify algorithm. And even if you use a different podcast |
| 1:43.4 | app, pop a comment on there, maybe even rate and |
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