To kick off the year we asked for your biggest money questions, which we're answering with financial adviser and friend of the podcast, Lisa Conway-Hughes.

This is Lisa’s advice firm LCH Wealth: https://lchwealth.co.uk

Correction: At 5:06 Lisa misspoke and said Tom would need 12-24k for 3-6 months of expenses as an emergency fund. She meant to say 6-12k (as in her example he'd have 2k expenses per month).

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Chapters:

00:00 - Franchise Exhibition ad

00:39 - Happy New Year

03:29 - House or Pension at 30

09:56 - Rent vs Buy 

15:08 - Salary Sacrifice rules have changed

16:56 - TaxZap ad

18:10 - How to derisk for retirement

22:10 - Running out of money

27:22 - How to retire early

29:37 - Pensions savings at 30/40/50

33:07 - Self-employed and pensions

38:11 - Vanta ad

39:16 - Will you get a state pension?

42:12 - Tax trick for low earners

46:45 - How to stop worrying about money?

49:55 - Know your number

54:19 - Can you spend more?

59:02 - How to pay less tax in retirement

01:02:33 - Pension or ISA?

01:04:22 - Inheritance tax

01:06:20 - Where to save to pay less tax?

01:07:15  - Basic money principles