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Women & Super – Bridging the Gap (seminar)
UniSuper speaker Gina Abuda will be introduced by SDVC Dawn Freshwater

Date: Thursday 15 October
Time: 12:30pm (duration 1h)
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre

Make sure you do register your attendance through UniSuper website

Super Strategies for Women seminar content

Research shows that women face unique challenges when it comes to retirement savings. They tend to have less super than men for many different reasons, including career breaks and time out of the workforce for to raise families, making it more difficult to build a reasonable amount of super. This session is suitable for women of all ages who would like to develop a better understanding of financial matters and be more active in managing their retirement savings. The seminar will cover issues such as:

• understanding the retirement gap and the factors that contribute to it
• easy and free steps to close the gap
• ways to boost your super; including taking advantage of government incentives
• examples of how we’ve helped members close the gap

Speaker Gina Abuda profile

Gina is a Certified Financial Planner with over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry.

She has joined UniSuper as a Private Client Adviser where she now provides comprehensive financial advice to UniSuper members and their spouses in Western Australia.

Gina is passionate about helping clients make the most of their financial situation in whatever stage of life they are in. In particular, Gina specialises in conducting an in-depth review of clients’ financial circumstance and assisting in identifying their goals and objectives, then designing a financial plan to help reach these goals and objectives.

She also considers that part of her role is to educate clients in order to assist them in making informed complex financial decisions and keeps abreast with changes in legislations.

Gina believes that financial planning is an evolving process. As part of this process she offers a regular review to ensure that any changes in the clients’ circumstance is captured, and any changes that’s needed to the financial plan is done in a timely manner. This ensures that the financial plan remains relevant to the changing situation of the clients.