Workshop: Investing for Freelancers

‘Workshop: Investing for freelancers’
– with Silvie van der Zee and Marianne van Amersfoort-Gerritsen

As freelancers, we have to make our own retirement plan. Just saving money can take a long time because of low interest rates, and you might even lose money because of inflation.

So why not invest some of it? In this presentation, we'll share our personal journey and strategies for investing as a freelancer. We'll explore various investment options, the importance of diversifying, and how to get started with investing.

Join us to discover what we are doing to take control of our financial future as fabulous freelancers.

Date: Friday, 23 May 2025
Time: 14:30 – 16:00, including Q&A
Location: Zoom (we’ll send you the link beforehand)
Cost: SENSE members pay just €25 (make sure you’re logged in first!)

Tickets for non-members are €40. Tickets for SENSE’s sister societies are €30 – please enter the discount code when you register for this event.

Please note: this meeting will not be recorded.

About the speakers

Silvie van der Zee
The Traveling Translator (Utrecht)

Silvie is a passionate traveler! She loves exploring new cultures and marveling at all the beauty that this wide world has to offer. From Croatia to China, from Cuba to Cairns: she’s been there! Over the past years, she’s spent several stretches of time living as a digital nomad all over the Canary Islands. Silvie has even lived in Canada and Spain, which gave her a chance to see the Dutch culture from an outsider’s perspective.

Silvie is specialized in English marketing and e-commerce texts in the travel and tourism sector, with specific expertise in translating ads, direct e-mails, newsletters, website texts, product descriptions for online stores, and promotional texts for holiday accommodations and destinations from English into Dutch.

Marianne van Amersfoort-Gerritsen
Hanse Translations (Warnsveld)

Marianne is an English to Dutch translator with a Bachelor degree in Translation. She lives in Warnsveld, next to the Hanseatic city of Zutphen, hence her business name Hanse Translations. She has been translating since 2021, after a long career in customer service.

As a foodie and wife of a former chef, Marianne's passion for food reflects her work. She translates marketing texts, culinary recipes and cook books. Because she loves food, she also needs to work out, so running and bodypump are a much needed part of her life.

About four years ago, Marianne started to look into the world of investing. When she became a fabulous freelancer, the need to secure her own financial future grew. After reading a lot about the subject, she has made a plan, and so far, it's going well. By sharing her and Silvie's journey, Marianne hopes to help other fabulous freelancers in creating their own future financial freedom.