Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season 8, episode 2.

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, I'm continuing my delve into the deepest depths of the Meaningful Money archives.

This week, I'm pulling out an episode from July 2014.

And that episode was responding to an iTunes reviewer who gently accused me of never fully

justifying my general advice that for most people, it's better to invest in funds rather than directly into

shares. Okay, it's an important point and worth revisiting, I reckon. So that's what I'm going to

be sort of rehashing today. Remember, after the main body of the show, I'll look at a couple of

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

before all that,

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I put it out a couple of weeks ago.

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