Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast, Season 7, Episode 7. Shall we?

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.

I nearly said good morning then because it just happens to be good morning when I'm recording

this, but it could be evening when you're listening or whatever. But great to have you with me

once again. Now for most of us, we are saving and investing towards a given end, right? That

end could be different for everybody. But usually, not always, that sort of end is to be financially

free enough, not to have to work

to be able to enjoy our money and enjoy our lives enabled by that money so in today's episode

I want to consider what you need to know and what you need to do is you enter retirement and

well specifically actually a little bit after you've entered it once you're in and have grooved in

so that's what we're going to talk about today.

After the main body of the show, as usual,

look at the most recent reviews that have been left by listeners this week,

announce what we're going to be talking about next time,

learn how to invest.

My course is open again for enrollment,

so that will be open for the next week or so beginning in October, so I'll talk

a little bit more about that at the end as well. But before any of that, remember this podcast

is brought to you with the very kind help of my friends at Seven Investment Management.

They're a firm of investment managers based in London who specialize in multi-asset investing,

which brings institutional investing techniques to ordinary people,

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