From the courtroom to the trading floor

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This month we are spotlighting Rebecca Thomas, the Founder and CEO of Mint Asset Management.  Learn about how personal experiences drove her to seek opportunities for herself and others when it comes to managing your finances. As well as, successfully navigating the C-suite as a young woman, in a largely male-dominated industry, which gave her the expertise to start her own business Mint Asset Management in 2006. With experience in the financial services sector in England, the United States of America, and New Zealand, her purpose was to give Kiwi’s better access to professional investment expertise.

Tell us about your background?

I started in financial services in the mid 1980s, I’d originally trained as a barrister and I moved into financial services then, at the time of Big Bang in London and ahead of the 87 crash. What really got me interested in finance was the fact that there had been some instances of mismanagement of trusts in my family when I was a teenager, and that got me looking at the way that other people’s money was looked after, and I thought that there was a lot of room for improvement in that particular area.
So that early experience, with the mismanagement of trusts in my family, made me believe that it was very important that people equip themselves to be able to control their own finances. That's all people but women, in particular, needed to have a better toolkit in terms of managing their finances.