Finance, wealth and Queenagers: a roundtable
Would you like to come and help shape the conversation between banks and women in midlife? A special invitation for Paid Subscribers to Noon and The Queenager
Dear Queenagers,
I’d like to extend a very special invitation to you to come with me to an intimate roundtable tea party at Coutts Bank on November 30th at 3.30pm.
First a bit of background: I got to know some of the NatWest/Coutts team when I wrote an article about companies who are doing the right thing by their senior women for the Financial Times earlier this year and we stayed in touch.
I love NatWest/Coutts because unlike most businesses in Britain they have a Queenager CEO (Alison Rose) who wrote a brilliant report about the lack of funding going to female entrepreneurs (less than 1% of VC funding, and depressingly getting worse not better post pandemic).
I’ve been chatting to the team at NatWest about all things midlife women and finance for a few months now. As an opening salvo in this ongoing conversation with our community they have offered to host me and a very select group of the Noon Community at their offices at 440 Strand to discuss what we want from our money, our bank and how we’d like to have those crucial financial conversations going forward.
NatWest is putting up a range of speakers, including Camilla Stowell, MD, Head of Private Clients and Commercial and Laura Newman, Head of Private Clients and Investment Services – they are keen to hear from Noon what our issues are and how they might serve us better.
As a female Founder at 50 I am really interested in the support (or lack of it) banks offer entrepreneurs like me, so if there other business owners out there I’d love you to come and say what you need. And Coutts/NatWest are also very interested in helping plug the gender savings, pension and investment gap. (As a woman who has been ignored while a financial advisor insisted on talking to my husband (although I am the bread-winner) I think we all know that these things are ripe for improvement). Women also tend to have different investment criteria from men (we tend to be more risk averse, and personally I’ve just removed all of my pension from anything actively doing harm to the planet, which I am told is a bit of a Queenager trend.)
I’m not sure exactly where the conversation will go but I am keen to explore NatWest’s kind offer to host us and I’d love for some of you lovely Queenagers who really know about these things to come with me and ask some pertinent questions and help develop what kind of things we might all do together in the future.
If that appeals, do email me eleanor@inherspace.co.uk – there are only 10 places so this will be done on a first come first served basis!
All the best
Eleanor
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