Money Talks

Christine Yu, co-founder of financial education platform Sophia and non-profit Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$, which is focused on closing the gender investing gap, and Lucinda Pike, executive director of Enrich, which empowers migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong to achieve financial literacy and manage their resources for a better future, discuss the financial barriers women face and the potential financial education has to empower

By Rachel Duffell.

“Financial literacy can be life-saving,” says Lucinda Pike, executive director of award-winning economic empowerment NGO Enrich. “Think about a woman who is in an abusive relationship: if she has financial literacy and the knowledge of control and choice over her money, she can leave [that] relationship. At Enrich, I see the power of that for women, who are able to change the trajectory of their lives. Financial literacy is a life skill which women do not have enough access to.” Limited financial literacy is not the purview of only those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Christine Yu, the co-founder of financial education platform Sophia, spent more than a decade working in global banking, advising companies, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds on money matters, yet that didn’t mean she felt…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023

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