Advocating for change
Why and how Verve is advocating for change Currently, women in Australia are retiring with 35% less super than men. Most Australian women retire dependent on their partner or the old age pension*. Women alone can’t solve this problem. It’s not enough for individual women to be able to succeed in our current unfair system. […]
A divorce coach on speed dial – the support squad every Aussie woman needs
This article was first published in Women’s Agenda on the 10th of December 2019. A divorce strategist, career coach, and pay negotiator on speed dial – it’s the support squad that every Australian woman needs, and the latest initiative to support women build wealth by Verve Super, Australia’s first super fund for women. Lisa was 39 […]
Busting the $1 million myth — how much super do you really need to retire?
Ask Australians the big question of how much they need to retire, and many will give a big answer –‘one million dollars’. It’s the figure often thrown around as the financial retirement ideal; but for many of us, it’s enough to send us into a head-first tailspin. At Verve, we speak to women almost every […]
Women aren’t ‘bad’ with money — that’s a total fallacy
One of the first panel discussions I ever spoke on as the CEO of Verve Super was on ‘financially empowering women’, yet the moderator started with the question: “Why are women so much worse at managing money than men?”. With over 500 women in the room eager to learn and build their financial skills, I listened […]
A response to recent articles relating to Verve Super
The AFR recently published two articles relating to Verve Super, on April 10 and April 12, 2020. Disappointingly, both articles contained what we believe is misleading information. The management of Verve Super were not given notice about the articles or interviewed prior to either article going to print. The quotes used in the article were […]
