Ep 546 - 'Sell in May & go away' tested & Credit card traps to avoid
The Money To The Masses Podcast
Damien Fahy
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Damien tackles the famous "Sell in May and go away" investment adage. Should you really cash out of the stock market to avoid a summer slump before reinvesting in the autumn? He looks into the latest research to see how this strategy holds up across UK and global markets. Finally, Damien and Andy expose the little-known credit card traps that could end up costing you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 546 of the Money to the Massis podcast with your resident expert, as always Damien Faye and me, Andy. |
| 0:06.8 | Daniel, Samuel, welcome back. How you doing? |
| 0:08.4 | I'm good and I will just say to people, I apologise for sounding slightly nasally this week because I'm not sure whether I've got the cold or it's hay fever. |
| 0:18.7 | I think it's my seasonal hay fever because I'm allergic to the pollen of silver birch. |
| 0:24.1 | I found that out actually via a test on the NHS. |
| 0:27.4 | And so this is the peak season about May time. |
| 0:30.3 | So I tend to get this seasonal hay fever. |
| 0:34.1 | So it makes me feel a little bit nasly and a bit under the weather. |
| 0:36.6 | But anyway anyway moving on |
| 0:38.1 | last week was interesting we talked about investing and we talked about the idea that investing is better |
| 0:45.8 | than saving money and it was really odd that just as we press stop on the recording of that show |
| 0:52.8 | there was the release of a campaign. I don't know if anyone |
| 0:55.8 | has seen it yet. There's a national campaign among various institutions trying to emphasize the |
| 1:02.6 | point that there is a missed opportunity by not investing. And the campaign has a cartoon or |
| 1:09.8 | animated squirrel that's the mascot, the whole thing. |
| 1:13.6 | And I mean, I don't know if anybody's seen out in what they think of it. |
| 1:17.0 | I'd love to know what people's thoughts are if and when they do see it, because is it |
| 1:21.3 | juvenile or will it encourage you to start to save? |
| 1:25.2 | I mean, I could see where they're going with that because people like to squirrel money away. I'm surprised more institutions haven't used a squirrel before. But I'll be honest, I'm not sure a squirrel was the kind of animal. I mean, squirrels around here seem to be, I don't know, pretty random in their movements. Well, Andy, Andy, sorry to cut across you. I've been putting lots of time and effort into filming in the garden for different shorts on Instagram and TikTok. |
| 1:48.3 | And I haven't yet put the squirrels on the feed, but they are everywhere in my garden. |
| 1:55.0 | As is a cub, so we've got a fox cub this year. |
| 1:57.9 | I did put that on Insta Stories the other day, which is very, very cute. |
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