About
Moneyvest delivers practical and engaging financial literacy, education and wellbeing programs to schools, businesses and organisations that provide hands-on strategies to build financial capability and confidence. Through our courses, presentations, school curriculum, events and resources we share Practical, Implementable, and Fun (P.I.F) ways to utilise this knowledge in everyday life. Knowledge is power and small positive money changes over long periods of time significantly help to reduce financial stress.
The idea was born in 2015. I was working with multi-millionaires and my little sister had recently finished high school. Having graduated from the same high school I knew she didn’t have the opportunity to learn anything about money. Despite money playing such a central role in practically everything we do we rarely learn about it, talk about it or understand it. Financial stress is the root of many relationship breakdowns, personal stress and I believe limits our ability to achieve our true potential.
The experience of helping multi-millionaires uncovered something very simple which I didn’t learn studying Economics and Applied Finance nor a Diploma in Financial Planning. Money is actually very simple and it’s made incredibly complicated. When you expose people to big words, delivered by intimidating figures dressed in suits, make it seem highly mathematical and ensure it is something that is not spoken about it becomes very daunting. For someone who has an interest in learning about money, it becomes challenging. For someone who is not interested in money at all, it can result in complete disengagement.
I learnt from working with lawyers, doctors, employees, employers, business owners, professional sports people, tradies, teachers and hardworking people trying to do their best the message was the same. Money is the only relationship we all have which we don’t get told anything about, rarely speak about it and don’t understand properly. Once I discovered this message, I decided to share the knowledge and practical strategies anyone can use with high school students. Young people provide the best feedback because they have no filter when letting you know what they really think. Seven years into this amazing journey, working with schools across the country it turns out that many others want to know about money too! I’m privileged to now work with schools, parents, teachers, apprentices, businesses and organisations every single day.
I have always loved working with people and been interested in money. It’s my passion and mission to positively impact the financial future of as many people as possible. If I can positively impact one extra person, I feel like I’ve done my job.
Dominic Aarsen, Founder and Lead Presenter, Moneyvest
Our core principles are based on building an experience for participants that enables and empowers them to make changes that are possible rather than theoretical (Practical), can be achieved and put into practice (Implementable) and make the process and journey enjoyable (Fun).
Practical - Theory is great until you try to implement it. At the core of what we do is make everything practical, provide participants with the ability to link concepts and ideas back to their own situation and put the power in their hands to go and implement changes
Implementable - The doing and making of changes can be really hard (and feel impossible) if the concepts, ideas and new found knowledge isn't practical or relatable. Our core principles are interlinked by design - if the ideas and concepts are practical and you have the tools to implement these ideas, it shifts from unrelatable theory to practical and transformational changes. When a participant can see instant benefits, this creates a positive reinforcement loop and it becomes fun to make progress, positive changes and see real benefits.
Fun - If it's not fun, it's not worth doing. When an experience isn't enjoyable, we disengage and fail to see any practical or real benefits. This usually happens before we have had the opportunity to implement any changes. The biggest barrier to success is failing to give changes enough time to make an impact and be able to see any benefit.
