Skills, competence and experience:

Susannah joined HL as a Senior Investment and Markets Analyst following a 15 year career at the BBC. She was the anchor for World Business Report and Business Matters on the BBC World Service and reported on financial and economic themes for BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and the BBC Budget programme.

As well as contributing to HL's commentary across broadcast and print media, she also hosts major economic and business summits around the world, interviewing leading economists, central bankers and senior political figures. Susannah follows monetary policy movements and fiscal policies closely to assess the impact on financial markets and economic growth, and has extensive experience in covering technology stocks and the retail sector.

Skills, competence and experience:

Sarah joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2017, after 14 years as a financial journalist. She worked for the likes of Bloomberg and Moneywise before going freelance.

Sarah provides insight and analysis to the media, her areas of expertise include savings and financial planning, but she also covers everything from tax to borrowing, spending and the housing market.

She is passionate about encouraging people to get to grips with every aspect of their finances, so they have enough money for the things that really matter to them in life.

Sarah's unique life experience, from divorce and single parenting to bereavement and caring for an aging parent, mean she has more than just a theoretical understanding of the life-changing importance of financial planning.

Skills, competence and experience:

Sophie is an Equity Analyst on the share research team, providing research and regular articles on a selection of individual companies and wider sectors. Sophie's specialities are Retail, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Aerospace & Defence as well as a few of the big tech names including Facebook and Apple.

Sophie first joined HL at the beginning of 2017 where she worked on Trade Support, supporting our stockbrokers and dealing operations. Here she gained invaluable insight into the operational side of markets and trading, before joining Share Research in summer 2018. She credits her interest in the world of finance and investing to a year spent studying at the University of Hong Kong.

Sophie holds the Investment Management Certificate, and has also passed the Securities component of the CISI Investment Advice Diploma. She's currently working towards the CFA's Certificate in ESG Investing.