MMP153: Listener Questions Answered
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Every week I ask people to leave me voicemail questions so I can answer them on the show, and hardly anyone does so. But this week, I answer two voicemails that came in within a couple of days of each other. Voicemails, it seems, are like buses, you go for weeks without any , and then two show up together… 
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Listener Questions Answered
OK, two questions answered this week, the first is from George & Clare, who are getting married, and the other from Matt who has a questions on pensions tax relief.
In this session, you'll discover:
- The single most important mindset shift towards money, when you're about to get hitched
- How to make sure money is never a reason for separation
- Why you might need to have a conversation about a pre-nup
- Some quick ways to optimise your finances as a couple
- How pension tax relief works for employees, and
- How salary sacrifice extends that process.
Remember, you can have your question answered by clicking the green bar over on the right hand side of the page, or by going to the Ask Pete page!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast session number 153. Any questions? |
| 0:05.6 | Uh-oh. Yes. When you drink water through your trunk, doesn't taste like buggers. |
| 0:17.2 | This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. |
| 0:24.5 | My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know |
| 0:27.5 | and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm here to help you make sense of money. |
| 0:43.2 | Hi folks, welcome back. |
| 0:44.3 | Here we are again. |
| 0:46.1 | I hope you've had a good Easter. |
| 0:50.7 | Actually, when this comes out, it'll be a good week and a half after Easter, but I'm recording it on the Wednesday after Easter. |
| 0:52.8 | But I hope you're all really well. |
| 0:54.2 | I am much recovered and rested after a week off. So apologies again for the Encore episode last |
| 1:00.0 | week, but I hope you enjoyed it. It was a great one. Good conversation with Andy Hart. |
| 1:04.2 | Now, every single week at the end of the show, I ask people to leave me voicemail questions. |
| 1:10.2 | The idea is that, you know, I can play a different voice into the show, I ask people to leave me voicemail questions. The idea is that, you know, I can play a |
| 1:12.2 | different voice into the show and answer the questions that you really want to know the answers to. |
| 1:18.6 | But hardly anybody does that, and I still don't really understand why, because it's dead easy. |
| 1:23.1 | Meaningfulmoney.tv slash ask Pete. And, you know, using the microphone on your laptop you can easily leave me a |
| 1:31.3 | voicemail and i get sent an mp3 file of your lovely voice asking the questions but hardly anybody does it |
| 1:36.9 | but then this week or in the last couple of weeks i had two that came in within a couple of days of each other |
| 1:42.1 | so it seems that voicemails are a bit like buses you go for weeks without any and then two show up together so i'm going to answer a couple of days of each other. So it seems that voicemails are a bit like buses. You go for weeks without any, and then two show up together. So I'm going to answer a |
| 1:48.2 | couple of questions today, one on what to do when you're getting married. And another question |
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