The only three accounts you need
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Most of us don't need complex financial products. Instead, you can build all the wealth you need with just three kinds of account...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to another five minute Friday here I'm meaning for money |
| 0:03.5 | great to have you with me once again |
| 0:05.3 | shall we do this? |
| 0:09.4 | Very weird doing these sort of batching them because I have the same shirt on week after week |
| 0:16.2 | Perhaps I should think about production values and bring three shirts whenever I batch these videos |
| 0:21.0 | But anyway, let's answer some serious questions here and let's talk |
| 0:25.3 | about the only three accounts the vast majority of us will ever need. So let's put |
| 0:31.1 | five minutes on the clock down here and let's dive in. |
| 0:33.0 | You know the personal finance industry loves to make things complicated. |
| 0:37.0 | It loves to bombard you with information. You need this. You need to consider that. |
| 0:40.0 | You need to do X, Y and Z. |
| 0:42.0 | For most people though, when it comes to the wealth |
| 0:44.0 | building aspect of your personal finances, so excluding life insurance and stuff like that. |
| 0:48.8 | When you're talking about actually building wealth, most of us only ever need three kinds of accounts. |
| 0:54.3 | So first up is the cash izer. |
| 0:56.8 | Now cash ices generally are a rubbish idea. |
| 0:59.2 | The rubbish idea at the minute because interest rates are so low and you're saving tax on a fairly |
| 1:03.9 | paltry rate of interest. ISIS remember are completely free of all taxes. |
| 1:08.0 | So why might I suggest that as a good idea? Well a cash ISA is a pretty good place |
| 1:12.4 | to hold an emergency fund, something I always |
| 1:15.0 | bang on about here. It's your sort of buffer between you and the world. It's money you can get |
| 1:20.4 | out straight away if you need to. something goes wrong. Car blows up, |
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