Women and Finance Workshops

Series #1. Money Mindset

Do you know what it takes to create wealth? Apart from proven strategies and skills, your attitude, emotions, psychology and values toward money are the key factors. Come and learn from an inspiring entrepreneur, Xenia Ioannou, who has built multiple successful businesses while raising three beautiful children. She is also an author of a book 'Your Inner Journey to Wealth' educating people to shift their mind about wealth. This is a high demand workshop so register only when you are 100% committed to attend.

Series #2. Money Management

Are you struggling to reduce your credit card debt? Are you feeling there are better ways to build up your savings enough to go on that trip you dream of or buy the home you really want? This session will help to revisit your current money managing habits and inspire you to adopt strategies for budgeting, saving, and managing debts that you probably haven't thought of.

Series #3. Invest Wisely

How can your money work for you, rather than you work for your money?
Remember, you are the master of your life and money is your servant. It is known that 70% of millionaires in Australia are made from property investing. However, just being a passive property investor is not enough anymore, as the market shows, it is not necessarily doubling its value every 7-10 years. We will explore options and guide you to further education to be an active investor in property as well as other investment strategies i.e. shares, businesses.

Past events

Financial Planning - Getting Started

Personal finance is often considered daunting or something that you will get around to when you’re older. It’s neither! If you want to make the most of your money now and in the future you need to start planning now. In this session we will discuss personal financial planning and what it involves, acknowledging that we all have different financial priorities and resources. Topics include: setting your financial goals, managing debt and financial stress, saving for the future and selecting a financial planner.

The presenter will be Beryl Rowe from Centrelink’s Financial Information Service.

Protecting Your Assets - An introduction to insurance and estate planning

When we think of personal financial planning the first thing that comes to mind is wealth creation, but it encompasses much more – it is also about securing what you have. With juggling priorities it can be difficult deciding where to start with finance, especially when just starting out and the one often overlooked is protecting our assets. This session aims to provide you with a better understanding of risk and how to manage it; the various insurance products and how they work; and the elements of estate planning. An important session for women at all stages – if you have ever thought ‘what will happen financially if I became ill or incapacitated?’.

The presenter will be Beryl Rowe from Centrelink’s Financial Information Service.

Understanding Super for Women

Surveys consistently demonstrate that the level of retirement savings of women tends to be significantly lower than men. This is generally due to different working patterns, family responsibilities and relationship breakdowns. No matter what your situation is, this seminar can provide you with the tools to make well informed decisions about your financial future.

Suitable for women of all ages who would like to better understand why superannuation matters and be more active in managing their retirement savings, it will cover issues such as:

• reasons to take an active interest in your retirement security
• understanding your UniSuper statement
• UniSuper options and components (including insurance and salary sacrifice)
• legal issues to think about
• impact of employment variations on retirement savings (maternity leave and part-time)
• how much do you need?
• ways to build capital for your retirement

We strongly recommend that you bring your latest UniSuper statement with you when you attend the session.

Increasing Your Assets - an introduction to shares and investments

Would you like to hear about strategies to build wealth. We will also discuss investment options and asset classes including shares, property, direct and indirect investment, and risk and how to manage it through investment timeframes, risk versus return and diversification.

The presenter will be Beryl Rowe a Financial Information Services Officer from Centrelink’s Financial Information Service (FIS).

FIS is an education and information service available to everyone in the community. FIS helps people to make informed decisions about investment and financial issues for their current and future financial needs. FIS is independent, free and confidential and provides services though seminars, phone and appointment.