Fund Your Retirement Podcast

Oliver MacDonald is a pension expert who helps many businesses & their employees understand workplace pensions. Many pay into a pension and have no idea where that money goes or how their future retirement might look. Oliver helps those businesses communicate the importance of their workplace pension and how this contributes to their overall retirement planning and well-being. Oliver explains the...

Dominic shares his passion, knowledge, and insights from helping people achieve the goal of funding their retirement with clarity and confidence over his 15-year career. Dominic believes in combining the financial plan with the most suitable wealth engine that suits your circumstances so you can retire with clarity and confidence. Dominic McLoughney is a Charted financial planner and Director at B...

Chip Stites is back with us to share his knowledge on how to get started with dividend investing. Chip, a retired financial adviser shares his six-step process of how he selects dividend-paying stocks for his retirement portfolio. Chip shares how his investments have changed over his 40-year investing career to where he is today retired living in Italy and managing his portfolio of dividend-paying...

Neil believes in simplifying financial advice, transparency, and putting the client first. During this podcast conversation, Neil shares how the role of an IFA has changed over the years leading Neil to decide to become a regulated advisor having seen the industry change for the better which he shares in this conversation. Neil has a wide range of clients from as young as their early 20s to late 8...

Today I am joined by Matt Angell, director and financial planner of Creative Lifestyle Planning. Matt is a financial planner, qualified financial coach, and mentor with a focus on lifestyle financial planning. Matt is part of a new wave of financial planners who helps their clients not just fund their retirement, but also find happiness and peace of mind before, and after they retire. Timestamps:...

Mark Atkinson is a self-directed private investor who achieved financial independence at the young age of 53, Mark isn't an ex-corporate CEO, he didn't exit a multi-million-pound business, nor did he inherit millions or win the lottery. Mark quite simply saved and invested those savings into the stock market over his 30-year working career. Mark shares what sparked his earliest interest in the sto...

Rob Dubin achieved a huge goal of financial independence at the young age of 42 and spent the next 17 years sailing around the world with his wife living the dream. Rob shares the four principles he used to retire early and sail around the world. Principle one, how to think about money Principle two, spend less and save more Principle three, Increase your earnings And principle four is wise invest...

Sam Kamani is back with us to talk about NFTs, such as, what are NFTs, how do they work, how you can get involved, and how to value what an NFT is worth. Sam Kamani Quote "there is a reason why NFTs have generated billions of dollars of value in the last few months" close quotes. NFTs had been the best-performing digital asset class in 2021. Sam shares why he believes the market for NFTs will expo...

Craig West breaks down how to buy an established business, how to value a business, and how to plan for a successful business exit. Craig West is the CEO and founder of Succession Plus which provides focused and strategic advice for SME business owners in business succession and exit planning. Craig is a successful entrepreneur who has helped over 600 business owners maximise the value of their bu...

What is Defi, what is yield farming, what are Dapps, what are Daos, and what are stable coins are just some of the questions that today's expert guests answer, Ben Knaus and Ted Theodore. This episode promises to open this new digital asset space that has the potential to completely change so many areas of our lives.  Ben Knaus is the Chief Growth Officer for Sch0lar.io Ben's origins in digital as...

Sam Kamani is here to talk about investing in digital assets, what is web 3.0, and what is the metaverse. Sam Kamani will share what is the upside and the downside of web 3.0 and the metaverse. Sam talks about investing in digital assets, and how you can protect yourself in this new digital world. Sam Kamani is a tech entrepreneur who has built and exited multiple tech companies between 2007 and t...

Antony Villis is a charted financial planner, certified wealth manager, and qualified financial coach and mentor. Anthony shares how the role of a financial planner has evolved over the last decade. Some of the topics we will be discussing are evidence-based investing, the Monte Carlo simulation, and how the role of a financial planner has evolved to meet the modern demands of planning for retirem...

Chip helps people reframe what retirement means so they can enjoy a happy and fulfilled retirement. You may be surprised that many do struggle to make that transition both mentally and financially as you will hear from Chip. Chip Stites has decades of experience in the financial planning world, he is a Retired Investment Advisor and a Retired Certified Financial Planner from the US. Chip left that...

In this episode, we will take a deep dive into the system and strategy that Simon Popple uses in the commodity mining space for unearthing gems like Chalace, and Arizona Lithium. Simon will share how he picks the winners in the junior mining space so you can diversify your portfolio and fund your long-term retirement. Part one was an introduction on why Simon specialises in the commodities space a...

Simon Popple believes commodities should be a core component of every investor's portfolio, because one, you can't print them and two, they are the raw components that make the things we use in our daily lives. Simon grew his £190,000 sipp portfolio to over £750,000 in 9 months using the investment strategies he shares in his weekly report. The Brookeville Intelligence report. Simon has been a reg...

Meir Velenski financial markets expert and Lee Cleasby take a deep dive into current market events, such as Inflation, Federal Reserve tapering, interest rate hikes, and what does it all mean. Will the federal reserve trigger a market crash in 2022? Meir started his career in the city of London as a Eurobond Trader and an Options Trader and quickly developed into an expert on Financial Markets, wo...

Andrew spent many years as a fund manager working in the FX spot markets, before recognizing some considerable inefficiencies between money managers, brokers, and the expectations of the retail investor. Andrew decided he wanted to do something about that and created Union, an alternative investment platform that connects money managers and regulated brokers with the retail market with built-in ac...

Happy new year and welcome to the first podcast episode of 2022. We have interviewed some fantastic individuals in 2021, experts in their field, who have shared some great insights about property investing, stock investing, gold investing, commodities, trading, business and entrepreneurship, economics, personal finance, cryptos, mind-set and much, much more. The focus of the Fund Your Retirement P...

Ronnie Moas explains where he believes the price of Bitcoin will be in the next few years and his reasons why. Ronnie also shares his thought on the S&P500 and at what levels he would be happy to start buying companies on sale again. Ronnie explains when he uses ETF's and why they can be a good strategy to use when it is not so easy to pick the winners from a sector. Ronnie is the founder of stand...

Paul Belanger shares detailed analysis of why Gold is still an important component of the Monetary system. Paul shows the amount of physical currency in circulation versus the amount of gold held by the Fed since the 1970s. Pauls shares in detail how you can assess golds true valuation against the amount of currency in circulation both for the Fed and the ECB. Paul also shares why he chooses value...

Professor of economics at Boston University Laurence Kotlikoff shares an economics approach to financial planning. Laurence Kotlikoff explains why economics matter, and how they can be applied to banking, personal finance, and retirement strategy. Professor Kotlikoff is a New York Times best-selling author and a frequent television and radio guest.  In 2014, The Economist named him one of the worl...

Lane Kawaoka, a licensed Civil/Industrial Engineer turned property investor and entrepreneur with over 3500 rental properties in his portfolio. Lane bought his first rental property in 2009 and now manages a portfolio of over 3500 rentals. Lane's story is fascinating and full of inspiring insights which is why I am delighted he has joined us on the Fund Your Retirement Podcast to share his journey...

Paul Belanger shares his investing philosophy and journey that took him to financial independence at the age of fifty. Paul is a chemical engineer by profession, and he retired at the age of 50, having achieved financial independence, through saving and investing, giving himself freedom of choice. Paul explains his background and what led him to take a deep dive into investing and economic theory,...

This will be the century of clean energy transition and mineral constraints says Matt Watson, founder, and president of Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC. Matt  Watson Specialises in precious metals markets and its supply chain,  Matt assists clients ranging from  Mining,  Investors,  Industrial  Precious Metals  Users,  Processors,  and  Recyclers and coaches industrial clients on how to r...

Bharat Kanodia has appraised over 2000 businesses and signed off on assets worth $2.6 trillion in value.  In this episode, Bharat shares his insights on how to build a business into a high-value saleable asset. He has appraised unique assets like Atlanta Airport, Uber, Airbnb, Yahoo!, and the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas, among many others. Bharat is the Founder of Veristrat, a company that helps st...