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• Corporate Communications
  

  Lucy Thomas

  Head of Corporate Affairs

  Lucy leads the Corporate Affairs Department at HL, which includes Corporate Communications. She sits on HL’s Executive Leadership Team and her full bio is available on this webpage.

  

  Alex Lambert

  Senior Communcations Manager

  Alex has been with HL since 2016, and over this time, has developed an in-depth understanding of our clients and our sector, having progressed through our Helpdesk and Graduate Scheme. Alex works across our Communications teams and manages HL’s Corporate Affairs Group, meaning he regularly interacts with a variety of stakeholders, from our colleagues through to journalists.

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  Victoria Bartlett

  News Editor and Producer

  Victoria shapes how our award-winning PR team creates and reacts to business, economic and personal finance news. She also collaborates with others company-wide to plan and implement media campaigns to support and showcase HL products, services and expertise and leads on securing broadcast coverage for HL analysts to share their insight on the most important stories. Victoria has 20 years of experience in broadcast journalism, having produced and edited TV programmes, radio shows and large-scale events for media outlets such as BBC Breakfast TV and Good Morning Britain. Prior to HL, she was a corporate media consultant, offering training to businesses to help maximise their PR campaigns, improve their media performance and prepare their executives for interviews.

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  Kat Hudson

  Communcations Executive

  Kat is an English graduate from the University of Manchester who joined HL in 2018 and runs the press office. Kat is the go-to person for sourcing expert comment, analysis and data. If you are unsure who best to direct an enquiry to, send it to Kat and she will find the right home.

• Financial resilience, ISAs, cash savings and planning
  

  Sarah Coles

  Head of Personal Finance

  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 – spending almost a decade writing for everyone from The Guardian to specialist investment and pension titles.

  Areas of expertise include savings and financial planning, but also cover everything from tax to budgeting and spending. 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.

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  Mark Hicks

  Head of Savings

  Mark runs HL’s Savings service – the largest retail-focused savings platform in the UK, consisting of Active Savings and Cash ISA product lines, helping clients make their cash work harder for them. He has over 15 years’ experience in financial markets, with particular expertise in interest rate movements and central bank policy. He provides expert media commentary on savings, cash management and fixed income products.

• Pensions and retirement planning
  

  Helen Morrissey

  Head of Retirement Analysis

  Helen joined Hargreaves Lansdown in August 2021 as a Senior Pensions and Retirement Analyst. She works with the media to raise awareness of key retirement issues to help people build financial resilience in retirement. Helen has 20 years’ experience in the pensions industry. Prior to joining Hargreaves Lansdown Helen worked as a pension specialist at Royal London where she provided media comment and research on issues such as auto-enrolment, investment, retirement income and state benefit take up. She was also an award-winning pensions journalist working on titles such as Professional Pensions, Global Pensions and Retirement Planner.

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  Clare Stinton

  Head of Workplace Saving Analysis

  Clare leads the strategic direction of Hargreaves Lansdown’s financial education proposition, engaging with the media and speaking at conferences on pensions, retirement, workplace savings and employee benefits. Since joining HL in 2014, she has guided hundreds of employers on employee engagement with auto-enrolment pensions, and supported thousands of individuals as the regular host of HL webinars on all things money, driven by the belief that knowledge empowers. A passionate advocate for women’s financial resilience, she works to raise awareness of the challenges women face in achieving financial security.

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• Share research, markets and economics
  

  Susannah Streeter

  Head of Money and Markets

  Susannah Streeter is responsible for providing commentary and analysis to the media and clients on financial market movements and macro-economic developments. She joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2020, following a 17-year career at the BBC, joining as a presenter and correspondent, and then becoming part of the finance and economics unit in 2005. She anchored 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. She follows central bank monetary policy movements and fiscal policies closely, to assess the impact on financial markets and economic growth. Susannah speaks at and chairs major economic and business summits around the world and interviews leading economists, central bankers, and senior political figures. Susannah is also a former RAF Reserve Squadron Leader and has she has a keen interest in aviation and the impact of global trends on the aerospace industry. Susannah is the co-host of the HL Switch Your Money on podcast, our fortnightly dive into the investment world.

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  Derren Nathan

  Head of Equity Research

  Derren has over 15 years of equity research experience across multiple sectors on both the buy and sell side. He joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2022. Prior to that he was Head of Research at Hybridan LLP, a well respected corporate broker in the City, advising companies on fundraises, IPOs and the aftermarket, as well as providing investment research to institutional investors.

  After graduating from the Manchester School of Management he began his career in accountancy practice, starting off in Corporate Recovery and Insolvency (a helpful introduction on how not to run a business), before spending 4 years at PwC’s investment funds division.

  Derren is dedicated to enabling access to insightful digestible expert opinion for retail investors and helping to demystify financial analysis and equity valuations.

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  Matt Britzman

  Equity Analyst

  Matt is an Equity Analyst on the share research team, providing up-to-date research and analysis on individual companies and wider sectors. He is currently responsible for coverage of Miners, Financials/Banks, Industrials and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).

  Matt first joined HL in 2015, spending time in client-facing roles on the Investment Helpdesk. He moved into a management position in 2017, overseeing our investment related correspondence and joined the share research team in 2021.

  Matt holds the Investment Management Certificate, has passed the Securities component of the CISI Investment Advice Diploma and is currently a candidate for level 2 of the CFA programme.

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  Aarin Chiekrie

  Equity Analyst

  Aarin is an Equity Analyst on the share research team, providing regular research and analysis on individual companies and wider sectors.

  Before joining HL in 2022, Aarin worked at a wealth management firm, helping to deliver positive outcomes for clients. Having a keen interest in global economics, he knows how macro-events can impact individual companies.

  Aarin graduated from the University of Liverpool with a first-class degree in Economics. He is currently undertaking the CFA programme.

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  Steve Clayton

  HL Select Fund Manager

  Steve started working in the City in 1987, after gaining an economics degree from the University of Cambridge, and has worked in the stock market ever since. Early experience at Royal Life, NPI and Halifax eventually led to a Partnership at Mirabaud Securities LLP. That move saw Steve switch from running institutional portfolios to providing leading fund managers in the UK, Switzerland and North America with advice on stock selection and strategy. Steve joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2014 to provide equity research to our clients and create the HL Select UK Growth Shares Fund range.

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• Fund research, VCTs and sector trends
  

  Emma Wall

  Head of Platform Investments

  Emma Wall is responsible for ensuring HL has the highest quality of investment products on the best commercial terms that allow HL to provide our clients with exceptional outcomes and value. Emma and her team are responsible for sourcing investments for the platform, as well as providing HL clients with strategic asset allocation, ESG analysis and research on equities, funds, ETFs and investment trusts. Her team runs HLAM investment solutions including the Wealth Shortlist, Foundation Portfolios and Pathways Funds.

  Emma chairs the Distribution Investment Oversight Committee and is a member of the Product Governance Committee.

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  Victoria Hasler

  Head of Fund Research

  Victoria has more than 20 years of experience in investment analysis and is responsible for overseeing and implementing the fund research process at HL, including the Wealth Shortlist. She heads up the Senior Research Team, providing challenge across all sectors on the Wealth Shortlist, and votes on all fund proposals. In addition, Victoria covers specialist and impact funds.

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  Kate Marshall

  Lead Investment Analyst

  Kate leads a team of Investment Analysts and is a member of the Senior Research Team. She provides oversight and challenge to fund selection across all sectors on the Wealth Shortlist, and votes on all proposals. She's also involved in compiling investment portfolios for HL's advisory team, and is responsible for researching the Europe and Japan fund sectors.

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  Hal Cook

  Senior Investment Analyst

  Hal is a part of our Fund Research team and is responsible for analysing funds and investment trusts in the Fixed Interest and Multi-Asset sectors. He's also on our Senior Research team and provides oversight and challenge to fund selection across all sectors on the Wealth Shortlist, and votes on all proposals. Hal joined HL in August 2022 from a Wealth Management company where he was responsible for fund selection and monitoring for their Discretionary Managed Service, across multiple sectors.

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  Joseph Hill

  Senior Investment Analyst

  Joseph is an integral part of our Fund Research team, having joined HL back in 2017 on our graduate scheme. He provides oversight and challenge to fund selection across all sectors on the Wealth Shortlist, and votes on all proposals. Joseph is currently responsible for researching funds and investment trusts in the UK Growth, UK Equity Income and UK Smaller Companies fund sectors, providing expert insight for our clients.

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• Responsible investing
  

  Dom Rowles

  Lead ESG Analyst

  Dominic leads the team responsible for developing ESG integration across the business, and ensuring best practice is upheld. He's passionate about ESG and sustainability, and enjoys learning from fund managers and other industry experts who are dedicated to making the world a cleaner, greener place, and passing that knowledge on to our clients ensuring they've the tools and information needed to invest responsibly.

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  Tara Irwin

  Senior ESG Analyst

  Tara's part of our ESG Analysis team. She is passionate about climate change and helping clients invest responsibly. She leads the net zero strategy for our investments, helping to strengthen the analysis of climate, biodiversity, and nature-related risks and opportunities.
• Public policy and responsible investing
  

  Anne Fairweather

  Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy

  Anne joined Hargreaves Lansdown in March 2021 as Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy. She leads campaigns on financial resilience and engaging retail investors. Anne has a long career in policy roles in London and Brussels. Over the last decade she has specialised in financial services policy issues for the British Bankers Association, Nest Pensions and Nationwide Building Society. Outside of work from 2016-2022 she was an independent Councillor in the City of London Corporation, working on issues from education and open spaces management to representing the financial and professional services sector on policy and trade issues.

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  Nathan Long

  Senior Analyst

  Nathan is a research analyst working on pensions, savings, investments and wider public affairs. He is the architect of HL’s Savings & Resilience Barometer and leads the work on using behavioural science to improve client decision making. He’s been instrumental in developing analysis of engagement among workplace pension members. He joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2003 and has worked in several areas of the business including as a financial adviser to individuals, and as a pension and benefits consultant to employers across the UK.

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  Martha Girling

  Responsible Business Manager

  Martha Girling leads the responsible business work at Hargreaves Lansdown, aligning and coordinating activities across the business, including reporting, and runs its charitable foundation, the HL Foundation. After building the original Corporate Social Responsibility function at HL, Martha has been instrumental in developing this into a cross-business, purpose-led ESG strategy.

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