Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season seven, episode eight. Here we go.

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.

Hello, hello, great to have you with me once again.

Now, as we approach what I'll

sensitively call later life, our minds turn to two main things, in my experience anyway,

from working with financial planning clients for 20 years. Those two things are,

what if I need long-term care? How will I pay for it? How does that work? And how can I best leave what I

have to my family? Now, in today's show, I'm going to be looking at the sort of main things to know

and to do to sort of finish well, financially speaking. And even if you're not in this live stage

yourself, probably there's not many people that kind of age listening to, you know,

podcasts, but more possibly a sweeping generalisation, probably one which isn't too far from the

truth. Maybe a family member is approaching this live stage and hopefully this will be helpful.

I'm not expecting massive download numbers on this one, I have to say, but you never know.

So that's what we're going to

be talking about. And as usual, after the main body of the show, I'll look at the most recent

reviews that have been left, announce what we're going to be talking next time, all that jazz.

As usual, though, this podcast is brought to you with the very kind help of my friends at 7

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

something I am always, always banging on about here. Multi-asset investing brings institutional

level investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. And 7-I.M. have been

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