The Meaningful Money Handbook by Pete Matthew

Want to take control of your personal finances? Trying to find a book to help you out? If so The Meaningful Money Handbook: Everything You Need to Know, and Everything You Need to do, to Secure Your Financial Future by Pete Matthew might be a book to consider. Keep on reading to find out what you can expect to find inside the book, as well as my thoughts on the book and who I believe would get the most out of the book.

 

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INSIDE ‘THE MEANINGFUL MONEY HANDBOOK’

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Money Mindset
The Three Steps to Financial Success

 

Step 1 – Spend Less Than You Earn

1. Why Bother to Budget?
2. Spend Less than you Earn
3. Getting Out of Debt
4. Pay Yourself First
5. Dealing with Setbacks and Challenges

 

Step 2 – Protect Against Disaster

6. Lay a Solid Foundation
7. Life Insurance
8. Critical Illness Insurance
9. Income Protection Insurance
10. Building a Protection Programme
11. Wills, Trusts and Powers of Attorney

 

Step 3 – Invest Wisely

12. Saving and Investing
13. Risk, Timescale and Reward
14. Asset Classes
15. Funds
16. Wrappers
17. Platforms
18. A Word About Tax
19. Practical investing

 

Staying the Course
When and How to Use a Financial Adviser
Over to You

 

ABOUT ‘THE MEANINGFUL MONEY HANDBOOK’

The Meaningful Money Handbook is written by Pete Matthew. Pete is a Chartered and Certified Financial Planner and Managing Director of Jackson’s Wealth Management in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. Since 2012 Pete has been sharing his passion and expertise for finance over on his podcast The MeaningfulMoney Podcast. The Meaningful Money Handbook is an extension of The MeaningfulMoney Podcast.

At the beginning of the book Pete writes that the book is for “ordinary people” and this is reflected in the contents of the book. As you can tell from the contents the book is broken down into three sections:

1. Spend less than you earn
2. Insure against disaster
3. Invest wisely

Pete concentrates on two things throughout the book. He tells you “everything you need to know and everything you need to do”. The book doesn’t attempt to go into detail about everything, but the aspects of finance that Pete believes are the most important for the ordinary person.

 

FINAL THOUGHTS FROM CHARELLE

Early on in the book I thought here we go again – another book that is covering the budgeting, debt and savings. Luckily for me, I was reading this book as part of the Finimize Ladies Investing Book Club (Yes I’m part of a book club, as well as running my own – PropelHer’s Book Club), which meant I perceived and I’m so glad I did. I found Step 2 – Protect Against Disaster to be the best book I’ve read to date on explaining all the different types of insurance you can and should get. Pete does a great job at explaining all of the difference, and also sharing his thoughts on what you should prioritise if you can’t afford to buy all the various types of insurance. In addition, in Step 3 Pete continued to do a great job in trying to make investing, which can often seem quite complicated, as accessible as possible. By the end I was thoroughly impressed with Pete, his knowledge and his way of explaining.

 

WHO SHOULD READ THE MEANINGFUL MONEY HANDBOOK

Pete is from the UK and this is reflected in the book, as a result, I would recommend this to UK-based people who want to develop their personal finances knowledge and take the necessary action to move in the right direction in relation to money.

 

This book is great for anyone who would like clear action steps. Pete has made it very clear in the everything you need to do sections of the book what you should be doing that there is enough advice for anyone who is looking to get out of debt, build their savings, properly protect themselves and then start investing.

 

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OTHER PERSONAL FINANCES BOOKS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN

• Money by Rob Moore (Read my review) 
• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez (Read my review) 
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi (Read my review)
• The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco (Read my review)
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Read my review)