Hi folks and welcome to the Mean for Money Podcast this is season 18 episode 4.

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. Thank you so much for joining me for this

next ultimate guide in the series. Having dealt with the basics of financial management and building a sure foundation,

we now need to turn our attention to the task of building wealth for the future.

And so today this is the ultimate guide to investing.

Fair to say it's a big task, so let's see how we get on.

After the main body of the show as usual I'll look at a review that's been left

recently announced the next session topic but before all that remember as always

this podcast continues to be brought to you with the help of my friends at seven investment management

who have been helping me out here for ten years now incredibly

so definitely check out what they're up to they at 7 i.m dot code at uk that's the number 7 i.m dot code at uk

thanks to them go check him out. Okay investing is essentially the process of making our money grow.

So that process involves harnessing other processes,

which are entirely outside of our control.

It always involves risk.

I'm actually going to talk about risks in a standalone ultimate guide

because that's a big subject in itself.

But today though, I want to try and do justice

to the whole idea of investing but here's the rub

this is going to be a two-part ultimate guide I don't really want to put out a 90-minute

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