Event Details

#BalanceforBetter: Understanding the Financial Readiness of Women across the Lifecourse - Are You Ready? - 10 May 2019, 12 - 2pm
10 May 2019
 
12:00pm-02:00pm
Aberdeen Standard Investments,
23 Church Street #06-01,
Capital Square 2,
Singapore 049480
  • Members Only Event
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  • ✪ Member's Fee: $0.00

FWA would like to thank Arbedeen Standard Investments for the venue and lunch

 

   

 

Financial independence is an important aspect of a woman’s life.

 

Yet, we often hear, even amongst our peers and women in finance, “I wished I had started my financial planning earlier!”

 

Why is that so? Perhaps, for many women, with the many different roles they take on throughout their life course and for many different reasons, women are distracted and not as focused on working towards financial independence. There was always something more important.

 

Working towards Financial readiness should not be ignored.

 

Attaining financial freedom is a process involving, as with many things in life, setting an aim and working towards achieving it. It is important for women to take charge of their finances.

 

What does Financial Freedom mean to you? How can you work towards your goal?

 

The speaker for the session, Ms Susana Concordo Harding, Senior Director at the International Longevity Centre at the Tsao Foundation will present the results of the study that was conducted to understand the financial readiness among women at different life stages and the impact of education and age on their financial independence, risk appetite, and wealth growth strategies.

 

This session seeks to address:

  1. How financially ready are the different profiles of women?
  2. What are the necessary steps to take towards financial freedom?
  3. How can we engage ourselves and other women in meaningful ways based on their profiles and their needs?
  4. What will motivate me to reach out and help myself and other women to be financially independent? 

 

Agenda:


1200 - 1230          Registration and Networking lunch

1230 - 1235          Welcome by FWA

1235 - 1240          Welcome by Aberdeen Standard Investments 

1240 - 1310          Women & Financial Readiness - Ms Susana Concordo Harding, Senior Director, International Longevity Centre, Tsao Foundation

13:10 - 13:40        Smaller group discussions of financial readiness and important steps to take for specific profiles

13:40 - 13:50        Q & A

13:50                    Closing

 

Speaker Profile

 

Ms Susana Concordo Harding, Senior Director at the International Longevity Centre at the Tsao Foundation will present the results of the study they conducted to understand the financial readiness among women at different life stages and the impact of education and age on their financial independence, risk appetite, and wealth growth strategies.

Susana Concordo Harding has been working with the Tsao Foundation for 17 years and has spearheaded the development and implementation of its women and ageing portfolio.  She was instrumental in developing and delivering a financial education targeting low-income women in Singapore which had been replicated in Indonesia and Malaysia.  She has led the setting up of a regional learning exchange network on older women and financial security covering seven countries within the southeast Asian region.
 
Susana has been invited as a speaker in numerous fora and conferences raising awareness and advocating on the strategic importance of mainstreaming gender in the ageing sector and ageing in the gender sector. 
 
Susana has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from the University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines) and a Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. 

 

REGISTRATION


Please note places are on a first-come-first-served basis so do register early! Deadline for registration is 02 May 2019. Please sign up early to avoid disappointment. We apologise that requests for places after the deadline will not be entertained. As places are limited and if you have RSVP but cannot make it, we appreciate that you cancel your registration so that we can make the place available to someone else. Cancellation details are provided below under NO SHOW POLICY. Thank you.

 

Members:

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NO SHOW POLICY


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