Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season six, episode seven. Tell you what, is it hot enough?

This is the 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 know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. I'm here to help you make sense of money.

Here we are once again, folks. It's about 95 degrees in my office. I mean, I think it must be one of the hottest days of the year. It's got to be 28 degrees. And if that wasn't, I nearly said bad enough, it's great. But I'm stuck at work. I'm in my office. My office is on the top floor of this building and underneath is a bakery.

So it's quite warm in here.

And obviously I've had to shut my window and turn the fan off.

Otherwise, all you'd hear is road noise and fan noise.

So, you know, if I'd suddenly go quiet and you hear a thud, it means I've passed out, right?

But hopefully that won't happen.

Hands up, who likes dealing with paperwork? Okay, there are some of you out there,

but most people avoid paperwork like the plague. Out of control, financial paperwork, though,

actually adds to the burden of stress you might have around your finances. Getting your paperwork

sorted, I promise you, will make you feel great. And today I'm going to show you how. After the main body of the show, we're going to look at some reviews, talk about what we're going to be discussing next time, and I have an announcement.

Hooray, after the main body of the show, so stay tuned for that. Remember, before all that, though, this podcast is brought to you with the help of my friends at seven investment management. They're a firm of investment managers based in London who specialise in

multi-asset investing, something I bang on about all the time here. Multi-asset investing brings

institutional level investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. Seven-I.M. are the

masters of that. They do a great job and they've been putting their name to my show here and to the

site because they believe in what I'm doing,

which is trying to get decent, easy to understand financial information out to the world.

I'm really grateful to them for their ongoing support.

Please do check out what they're up to.

7im.com.uk.

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