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The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast

What (not) to do when markets are volatile

The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast

Pete Matthew

Business, Investing, Education

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We really hesitated to put anything out regarding the current market volatility as we didn’t want to add to the noise. But now that we’re a couple of weeks in, hopefully the hysteria is starting to abate, and we can take something of a measured of things. We want to reassure you that discomfort is normal, but also provide some context that things are not as unprecedented as they might seem…


Shownotes: https://meaningfulmoney.tv/session571 

02:20  This time it’s different.

11:30  The US market is too concentrated.

15:26  I don’t have time to make it back.

20:50  Time IN the markets beats timING the markets.

25:48  Action (or inaction!) – What you need NOT to do?

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, folks, and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast. This is session number 571.

0:13.3

Yep, welcome back. We're dropping in a little in-between this ode here in light of recent,

0:19.4

what shall we say, should we call them movements in the markets, precipitated by everybody's favourite orange man in the White House. And to talk about that, I am joined as usual by a man who just exudes gravitas and calm. My good friend, Mr. Roger Wiggs.

0:34.0

Hi, Pete. Yeah, but be careful. Mr. Dayglo might well hit us with a special tariff

0:38.2

from podcasting from the UK to the US

0:40.5

and deriding him at the same time.

0:42.9

But yes, I will try to instill some element

0:45.0

of don't panic Mr. Manoring to the proceedings.

0:47.9

Let's just try to provide some context.

0:49.9

We've avoided adding to the noise too much,

0:52.5

but many people are worried, so let's do our bit to bring some calmed to things.

0:56.2

Yeah, this is sort of unstructured, not too much preparation.

1:02.3

But I did talk to a local business group here in Cornwall on Monday to 7.

1:06.5

So I basically nicked some of the notes from that and some of the charts.

1:09.7

Now, I know you can't see the charts because this is audio only,

1:12.0

but really they're just prompts for me.

1:15.2

So probably won't end with a review or anything like that,

1:17.5

but if we do link to anything,

1:19.9

there will be at the show notes,

1:21.0

which is meaningfulmoney.tv slash session 571.

1:24.8

Meaningfulmoney.tv slash session 571. Let's crack on, shall we?

1:31.4

So one thing I've sort of picked up is some sort of common themes, sort of things that people

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