Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast season 13 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.

Here we are once again great to have you with me. We're on a really exciting season talking about millennial finance but really this stuff applies to anybody who is getting started with their

personal finance journey. It might seem disingenuous to say that living longer is a

challenge, particularly obviously for millennials because that's who we're talking to.

Of course it's going to be a blessing first and foremost, but when it comes to

affording to live longer, there's going to be some things that we need to consider

and do that as early as possible to give ourselves the best chance really of making the best of

a long life. So that's what I'm going to be talking about today, the challenge of living longer.

As usual after the main body of the show, a couple of things to announce, a review from a listener,

and then we'll talk about what we're going to be discussing next time.

But before all like, remember, this podcast is brought to you with the help of my friends

at 7 Investment Management.

They are specialists in something called multi asset investing, something I'm always talking about here here and they've been helping me out for a long time now and I'm super grateful to them for doing so.

So please do check out what they're up to. They go, you need to go to 7.I.M.

to go to 7I.C. that's the number 7 I.m.

dot kowd at UK for those of you watching on video I can put that at the bottom of the

screen right we're now recording on video these podcasts so why not bit of an experiment we'll see how it all pans out

So there is no sort of

Scientific consensus really on the expected longevity of millennials at least not as far as I can

ascertain you know in the extensive research that I did for this series. Some say that

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