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The Stocks and Savings Podcast — 173 episodes

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169. How We’d Invest Our First £1,000 Right Now

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168. Should UK Investors Buy More UK Shares? When Home Bias Actually Makes Sense

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167. Are You On Track To Retire Comfortably? How To Run The Numbers On Your Biggest Financial Goals

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166. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In August

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165. How To Tell If A Stock Is Cheap Or Expensive - Our Simple Guide To Valuation

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164. Why Every Buy And Sell Decision Feels Wrong - And How To Keep Investing Anyway

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163. Our FULL 2026 Half-Year Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Favourite Investments, And More

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162. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In July

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161. The Exact Order To Invest Your Money From The UK In 2026

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160. Forget The S&P 500 - Should You Buy The S&P 3?

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159. Are SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI Ruining Index Funds?

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158. SpaceX - Should You Buy The Biggest IPO In History?

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157. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In June

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156. Three Vanguard Funds Better Than The S&P 500

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155. Everything We Did When Our 5 Biggest Holdings Reported This Earnings Season

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154. How To Decide When To Sell A Winning Investment

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153. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In May

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152. Is There FINALLY An AI Bubble? (Quite Possibly - Just Not Where You'd Expect)

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151. Are Dividends Actually Pointless? A Deep Dive Into Dividend-Obsessed Investing

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150. Timeless Investing Lessons From 6 Weeks of Chaos

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149. Three Expert Stock Picks For 2026 And Beyond - Here’s What We Think

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148. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In April

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147. Five Things To Do Before the Tax Year Ends

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146. The War in Iran - What It Means For Your Investments (And Ours)

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145. How We’d Invest Our First £10,000 In 2026 (From The UK)

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144. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In March

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143. Five Lesser-Known Ways To Get More From Your Pension

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142. The Winners And Losers Of The AI Boom - Our Take On A Wild, AI-Driven Earnings Season So Far

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141. Your Guide to Vanguard LifeStrategy Funds, Including The New LifeStrategy Global Range

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140. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In February

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139. Are These The Best ETFs For UK Investors In 2026?

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138. The 5 Best Stocks For 2026 According To Experts

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137. How To Start Investing From The UK In 2026

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136. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In January

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135. Our BIG 2025 Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Favourite Investments, And More

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134. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In December

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133. Stocks vs Cash ISAs, Pensions, and What Every Investor Gets Wrong About Their Investing Platform - General Investing and Finance Q&A

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132. AI Bubbles, Stocks vs Property, and The Myth of Market Timing - Investing Q&A

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131. Why You Shouldn't Listen To Us When It Comes To Investing

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130. Reviewing Another Wild Earnings Season (Axon, The Trade Desk, Duolingo and more) - Plus ANOTHER New Stock

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129. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In October

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128. Two New Stocks, One Sale, and the Start of a Whole New Investing Chapter

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127. The 17 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make in the UK (and How to Avoid Them)

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126. Is The Stock Market An AI Bubble Waiting To Burst?

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125. Three Big Moves In Our Portfolios - Selling A Loser To Purchase A Winner

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124. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In September

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Market Mini: Will Trump’s Plan Make Investing Harder? What Scrapping Quarterly Reports Means For Individual Investors

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123. Are Index Funds Ruining the Stock Market? The Passive Investing Debate & What It Means For You

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Market Mini: Is Past Performance Actually A GOOD Indicator Or Future Results?

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122. Should You Sell A Falling Stock?

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121. Why Your Brain Hates Investing After Prices Rise (and Whether It’s Really Too Late to Buy)

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120. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In September

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119. An Honest Review Of Our Portfolios After A Wild Earnings Season

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118. The 7 Most Important Numbers When Analysing a Stock

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117. How We’d Invest Our First £1,000 Right Now

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BONUS: The Trade Desk's Stock Just Plunged 40% - Here's What Happened, And We're Doing About It

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116. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In August

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115. Panic, Patience, and Profit - How To Stay Sane During Earnings Season

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114. How We Discovered Our 10 Best Investments

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113. Your Guide To Investing In Gold From The UK

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112. Our 2025 Half-Year Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Best Investments, And More

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111. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In July

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110. How To Choose The Best Global Index Fund For You

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109. Two Big Moves In Our Portfolios - Trimming Our Largest Investment & Adding A Brand New Stock

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108. Should You Invest Using A Pension Or A Stocks & Shares ISA - What We’re Doing Differently In 2025

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107. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In June

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106. “Don’t Listen To Trump!” - Investing Lessons From 2025 So Far

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105. The 5 Stocks We Want To Buy In 2025

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104. The Investments That DOUBLED Our Money - And How We Found Them

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103. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In May

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102. From £100 To £100k Invested - The Strategy Shifts No One Talks About

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101. Is It Time To Stop Investing In US Stocks?

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100. Ten Lessons On Investing, Business & Life From 100 Episodes

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99. Portfolio Update - How Our Investments Have Performed So Far In 2025

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98. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In April

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97. How Should Brits Invest During A Trump Presidency?

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96. Five Lessons on Risk and Uncertainty When Investing (Inspired by Morgan Housel)

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95. How We're Building A £1 Million Investment Portfolio

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94. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In March

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93. Why Do Stocks ACTUALLY Go Up?

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92. The 10 Best Stocks For 2025 According To Experts

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91. What's The Best Way To Calculate Your Investment Returns? And Does Trading 212's New Return Make Sense?

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90. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In February

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89. Are These The Best Funds And ETFs For UK Investors In 2025?

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88. How To Start Investing From The UK In 2025

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87. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In January

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86. The Biggest Investing Lesson We Learned In 2024

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85. Our 2024 Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Favourite Investments, And More

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84. Could Individual Stocks Be Less Risky Than Index Funds?

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83. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In December

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82. How To Manage Your Emotions When Investing

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81. Should You Invest When The Stock Market Is At All-Time Highs?

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80. How Will The US Election Impact Our Investing Approach?

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79. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In November

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78. Is The UK Stock Market Actually Worth Investing In?

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77. I JUST SOLD ALL MY STOCKS (Technically...)

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76. How To Simplify Investing For Retirement: The Magic of Target Date and Target Retirement Funds

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75. The Perfect Portfolio: How Many Investments Do You Really Need?

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74. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid In October

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73. These 5 Stocks Would Have Made You a Millionaire Over The Past Decade

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72. Is This The Easiest Way To Boost Your Savings And Investments? Your Guide To Lifetime ISAs

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71. Is Now The Right Time To Buy NVIDIA Stock?

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70. Inheritance Tax - How Does The Most Hated Tax In The UK Actually Work?

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69.⁠ ⁠Welcoming Two New Investments To Our Portfolios! The Stocks And Funds We Invested In When We Got Paid

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68. How Would We Invest £100,000? PLUS Our 9 Favourite Stocks Right Now

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67. Why Did The Stock Market Crash? Our Plan To Deal With Falling Investments.

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66. A Stocks And Shares ISA Or A Pension / SIPP - Which Is The Best Investment Account For You?

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65. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Invested In When We Got Paid In August

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64. Our Biggest Investment Just Broke The Internet: What We're Doing About CrowdStrike

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63. Seven Investing Lessons We Wish We Knew Earlier Which Would've Improved Our Mindset

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62. Should I Invest My Money All At Once, Or Drip-Feed My Investments?

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61. Our 2024 Half-Year Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Best Investments, And More

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60. I Was Wrong About This Stock: Here's What I Learned

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59. Your Guide To UK Pensions And How To Save For Retirement

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58. UK Investing Fees Uncovered: How To Minimise Costs And Maximise Returns

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57. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Invested In When We Got Paid In June

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56: Is It Worth Investing Small Amounts?

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55. Are Dividends Pointless? The Case For And Against Dividend-Paying Stocks And Funds

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54. Tax Free AND Government Backed - Are UK Premium Bonds A Good Place For Your Money In 2024?

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53. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Invested In When We Got Paid In May

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52. When Should You Sell Your Investments And Take A Profit?

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51: The 11 Stocks Controlling European Markets, Plus We Pick Our Favourite GRANOLA Stocks

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50. The 5 UK Tax Allowances You Need To Know For The New Tax Year

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49. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Invested In When We Got Paid In April

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48. Three Major Changes Coming to ISAs In 2024 In The UK

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47. How To Start Investing From The UK In 2024

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46. Why We Just SOLD A Bunch Of Our Investments

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45. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid

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44. How To Choose The Right Index Fund For You (S&P 500, FTSE All-World, FTSE 100)

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43. How We Value Companies When Investing

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42. How Much Money Do You Need To Retire? Our Plan To Start Withdrawing From Our Investment Portfolios

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41. Our Portfolios Were Losing Money For TWO YEARS: The 7 Lessons We Learned From It

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40. Why Buying Low And Selling High Is Harder Than You Think When Investing

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39. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks We Bought And Sold In January, Plus Tesla's Quarterly Earnings

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38. "My Partner Wants Me To Contribute To Their Mortgage, But I Won't Own Anything!" - Our First Ever Money Mini

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37. How Do We Invest? Talking Through Our Investing Philosophy, Our Portfolios, And Our Top 5 Holdings

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36. Our 2023 Stock Portfolio Review! Looking At Our Returns, Our Favourite Investments, And More

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35. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought And Sold In December

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34. Should I Overpay My Mortgage Or Invest? How To Prioritise Where To Put Your Money

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33. Buy, Sell, Or Hold: We Rate The Top 7 Stocks In The S&P 500! Introducing The Magnificent Seven

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32. How Can I Invest Ethically? The Pros And Cons Of Ethical Investing, And How Our Stock Portfolios Reflect Our Values

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31. What Did We Invest In This Month? The Stocks And Funds We Bought When We Got Paid

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30. Your Step-By-Step Guide To Investing: The 10 Things We'd Do If We Started From Scratch

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29. How Money Can Actually Buy Happiness, According To Science! 8 Principles To Get More Joy Out Of Your Finances

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28. Are Index Funds Really A Better Investment Than Professionally Managed Funds?! Let's Find Out

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27. The 5 Red Flags That Investors Need To Know To Avoid Investing In Bad Businesses

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26. How Can I Invest In AI Stocks And Funds? And Should I? Diving Into The World Of Artificial Intelligence And Investing

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25. The 5 Investing Mistakes That Cost Us THOUSANDS! Bad Stocks, Bad Decisions, And The Lessons We've Learned

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24. How To Make Money Through Investing: Dividends, Share Prices, And Why The Stock Market Goes Up

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23. What Stocks Do We Invest In? Revealing Our Stocks & Shares ISA Portfolios, From Index Funds to Tesla and Amazon!

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22. Reviewing Our Finances & Stock Portfolios + 6 Predictions For The Rest Of The Year

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21. How To Save And Invest For Your Children In The UK

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20. How To Analyse A Potential Investment: Airbnb Stock Analysis

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19. Investing Strategies: What Is Dividend Investing and How Does It Work?

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18. Is The S&P 500 A "Safe" Investment? The Hidden Risks Of Investing In Index Funds And Ways To Mitigate Them

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17. Become A Better Investor With These 10 Lessons From The Psychology Of Money

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16. Our Stock Portfolios And Our Top Stocks

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15. Understanding ISAs: Your Tax-Free Way To Save, Invest And Build Wealth In The UK

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14. How To Analyse A Potential Investment: Tesla

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13. From Dating Debt To Overhyped Stocks: Our 10 Biggest Money Mistakes

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12. Should I Invest During A Recession?

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11. How To Start Budgeting, With Our Own Personal Budget Explained

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10. How To Start Investing In The UK

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9. The Causes of Inflation, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes, and The UK Economy

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8. Our Stock Portfolios And Our Top Stocks

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7. How Achievable Is Home Ownership Nowadays?

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6. How To Survive A Bear Market

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5. What Is The Financial Independence / Retire Early Movement & Can You Achieve This?

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4. How to Analyse a Potential Investment: Shopify

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3. The Power Of Cash And Emergency Savings

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2. A Rollercoaster 2 Years For The Stock Market: The 2020 Boom And The 2022 Crash Explained

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1. How To Talk About Money With Your Partner

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Introduction To The Stocks & Savings Podcast