Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast season 13 episode 6. 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 on this sixth episode on this

millennial finance season now student finance the whole student loan system is misunderstood, to say the very least.

And because of that, it's widely feared by those who are considering higher education and their parents. I speak from experience. But it really

doesn't have to be that way. As with all aspects of finance, understanding drives out fear. So let's

start learning. That's what we're going to do today. After the

main body of the show I'll look at a review that's been left this week. I go over

some announcements about stuff that's coming up and talk about what we're going to be

talking about next week.

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

at 7 Investment Management.

They've been helping me out here since 2011, so a long time now, and I'm super grateful to them for doing so.

So please do check out what they're up to.

There's 7I.m. dot-cut. UK.

That's the number 7-I-M. dot-cutt.

Go check them out. Now, my eldest daughter, Ellie, she's currently in her first year at university and in this last year really in the run-up to the run up to her going I learned a great

deal about the student finance system because you have to right and including the

fact that so many people don't understand it properly a key moment for me was

just after I'd sat through an hour long presentation at the university that my daughter ended up going to.

And this presentation was done by somebody who was paid, employed by the student union at the university and you know this person was

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