News & Events

‘Wealth Wise Women’
International Women’s Day 2022

For International Women’s Day 2022, this series of FREE face to face and virtual sessions is proudly hosted by Lendlease Community Hub and API to take steps to #breakthebias. Hear from industry experts in wealth education, credit reporting and property investing, Antoinette Mullins, Victoria Coster and Emma Allen, as they share valuable insights into money matters.

Women are on average, retiring with 45 less Super than men. Increasing your financial literacy can empower you and give you resilience, to help you bounce back from anything.

These sessions highlight the importance of making good money decisions and gives you some practical tools to get started. By making conscious decisions and being deliberate in your financial planning, anyone can have the confidence to grow wealth, invest strategically and be wealth wise.

Wealth Wise Women – Session 1
How to grow wealth and financial resilience

Date & Time: 12pm (60mins) Tuesday 8th March 8th 2022
Location: Lendlease Barangaroo & live streamed

Presenters: Women in financial planning, property, and wealth education
Antoinette Mullins – Certified Financial Planner® & Director at Steps Financial
Victoria Coster – CEO of Credit Fix Solutions
Emma Allen – Director of Active Property Investing

Learn about:

  • How to build financial resilience
  • How to improve the strength of your credit score
  • How to accelerate your wealth through property

LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/264001554757

Wealth Wise Women – Session 2
How to build financial resilience

Date & Time: 12pm (60mins) Tuesday 15th March 2022
Location: Live Webinar

Presenter: Antoinette Mullins – Certified Financial Planner® & Director at Steps Financial (scroll for bio)

In Australia, women over the age of 55 is the fastest growing group of homeless people. But women are more educated and qualified than ever before. In fact, Australian female graduates are outnumbering males at record levels….in the first 15 years of the 21st century, women completing tertiary courses increased by 64 per cent – compared to just 51 for men.

So, if we are more educated and we have more choice, why are we still on a back foot to managing our finances? Improving your financial resilience can help you bounce back stronger than before.

Certified Financial Planner, Antoinette Mullins, talks about the challenges women face in their own financial and retirement planning, while giving some strategies to overcome them.

Learn about:

  • The Super and Wealth Gap between males and females at retirement
  • How increasing your financial literacy can empower you in all areas of your life
  • Some easy to follow steps to solve these challenges

LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/264094593037

Wealth Wise Women – Session 3
How to check, fix and improve your credit report

Date & Time: 12pm (60mins) Wednesday 16th March 2022
Location: Live Webinar

Presenter: Victoria Coster – CEO of Credit Fix Solutions (scroll for bio)

According to Veda (now Equifax), one in three Australians have bad credit. Just one default on your credit report, or some missed repayments can mean having to fork out thousands more in home loan interest rates and upfront application fees. It is of utmost importance when starting your wealth creation journey that you not only understand your credit report, but that you know how to protect it or fix it if it’s not looking good. Knowing this could be the difference between you and your family creating wealth or being stuck in the rental market for years to come.

Learn about:

  • Learn what is your credit report and score
  • Learn how to improve or fix your credit report and score
  • Get on track with better finance options

LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/265765159747

Wealth Wise Women – Session 4
How to accelerate your wealth through property

Date & Time: 12pm (60mins) Thursday 17th March 2022
Location: Live Webinar

Presenter: Emma Allen – Director of Active Property Investing (scroll for bio)

Women are creating wealth in many facets of life that are not necessarily measurable in dollars. We are living longer and accumulating substantially less superannuation so it’s no surprise that we are taking money matters into our own hands.

‘Financial literacy’ increases your awareness and empowers you to make smart decisions. It’s about being resourceful with what you have, so you can influence what you want your future to look like.

The journey of a property investor is therefore, not one big leap of faith. It’s a thought process encompassing many small steps and decisions to achieve an optimal outcome and accelerate your wealth creation. The key is that you get started because time in the market is more powerful that trying to guess the market. This session is the beginning of that conversation.

Learn about:

  • How to get your foot in the property market
  • The 3-things you need to start investing
  • Key questions to ask when selecting a property

LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/265766052417

Wealth Wise Women Presenter Bios

Antoinette Mullins – Certified Financial Planner® & Director at Steps Financial

As a qualified youth worker and trauma counsellor, Antoinette Mullins brings a different skillset to her role as Certified Financial Planner. This has enabled her to provide emotional support to clients going through a difficult time, as well as financial advice to improve their situation.

She has a passion for improving the financial literacy of her clients so that they not only understand their financial plan, but also get actively involved in implementing it. Her company, Steps Financial, works with a range of clients from those needing a cash flow and financial plan, to complex structures and pre-retirees wanting a clear retirement plan.

 

Victoria Coster – CEO of Credit Fix Solutions

Victoria Coster is the founder and CEO of Credit Fix Solutions, a licenced debt management firm, established in 2013 to offer consumers and finance brokers education around credit reporting and credit report repair services where needed. Victoria has 20 years’ experience in the finance and credit repair industries having spent 10 years in mortgage processing and finance broking from 2002 to 2012, then establishing Credit Fix Solutions in 2013. Victoria is an award-winning entrepreneur and is well known in the finance broking industry as a trusted credit report repair expert. She has built a national company, and Credit Fix Solutions has since become the first credit repair company in Australia to obtain a Licence via ASIC, ACL Licence No: 531433 | AFCA Member # 82962. Victoria has 8 years of experience in running educational webinars and presentations to broker groups across the country. Victoria is also the author of ‘From Zero to CEO’ a step by step guide to start a business from home with no money, which is how she started her business in 2013. Victoria is an avid supporter of the finance broking industry and has around 5,000 finance brokers using her services for their credit reporting education, guidance for their clients and credit report repair needs.

Emma Allen – Director of Active Property Investing

Emma Allen is a best-selling author and founder of Active Property Investing (API). She leads a passionate group of consultants and property professionals who are recognised for their high standards in research and customer service. This award-winning team empowers everyday Australians to develop their financial literacy so they can invest in property with clarity and confidence. API won the coveted Service Excellence WSABE Award for Western Sydney and was featured in the Australian Business Journals ‘Top 15 Property Experts to watch in 2021’. Emma is passionate about financial literacy and shares her practice approach to help people from all walks of life build wealth through property.