Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast this is season 17 episode 8 and yeah I'm back

This is season podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to do to secure your

financial future.

I'm here to help you make sense of money. Here we go.

go, great to have you with me once again. It is a sad fact of getting older that we become increasingly aware of our own mortality, right?

And eventually, for those of us who are in a long-term relationship,

we're going to have to face the specter of losing our partner,

or of them losing us.

Now obviously if we're old enough to be in retirement this is even more of a factor in our minds and like anything else we should plan for it and that's what we're going to be talking about today.

So as usual after the main body of the show I'm going to look at a review that's been

left announced we're going to be talking about next time and about meaningful

academy but before all that as, this podcast continues to be brought

to you with the help of my friends at 7 Investment Management.

They have been helping me out here on Meaning for many for ages and ages and ages, so please do check

out what they're up to say

thank you to them there at 7.m. dot code at UK that's the number 7 i.m.co. UK

okay before we dive into the show it's good to be back into the studio, right?

All the nice lights and everything around me and slightly more controlled white balance and the things that are important to me,

but more important than that, I wanted just to say a massive thank you for all of your kind messages while I've

been off. I've taken three weeks off the podcast and I don't think I've done that

since April 2013. Just by way of explanation we still don't know what's

going on. I'm still knackered a lot of the time. I'm fairly convinced it's

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