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Super: why it matters and the importance of investing for our future selves [Part 1]

Financial adviser Jessica Brady shows us how to prioritise our future selves and why getting our super sorted out ASAP is important.

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Welcome to our two-part super crash course with financial adviser, Jessica Brady

Today’s conversation is all about why super matters and why you can’t afford not to care. Kate and Jess discuss how to prioritise our future selves in a world full of competing priorities, investing inside and outside of super and the challenges certain groups face with reaching their retirement goals.

✅ Here are some of the high-level things we cover:

  • What is the purpose of super?
  • How do we care about something so far out in the future?
  • Investing in super vs outside of super
  • How can we be better risk managers?
  • Challenges specific groups face

👀 Who is Jessica Brady?

Jessica is a leading licensed financial adviser in Australia and has over 17yrs experience in the Financial Services industry, working with some of the biggest names in finance including Macquarie Bank, CBA and Zurich.

In 2017 she co-founded the award-winning practice Fox & Hare Financial Advice (B-Corp).In 2020, she co-founded Ladies Talk Money – A free online resource for women to learn and to tackle some of the issues around financial inequality that currently exist.

She has previously been named in the Financial Stand Power 50, the top 50 most influential advisers in Australia, and awarded the 2019 Newcomer of the Year at the prestigious Independent Financial Advisers (IFA) awards.

Recently she launched, The Greenhouse – an online program designed to make accessing affordable financial programs jargon free, stigma free and fun!

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