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Robin Amlôt

Senior Editor - Robin Amlôt

Joined Moneyextra in September 2001 as Senior Editor; overall responsibility for editorial output on the website, including news, features, guides, etc, and for managing the company's relationship with the media and raising its profile.

Previously producer of Sky Business Report on Sky News; Financial Editor, Independent Radio News; financial commentator Classic FM; author Guide to World Markets (Boxtree 1992); columnist, The Independent; editorial consultant, Successful Personal Investing.


Martin Morris

News Editor - Martin Morris

Joined Moneyextra in 1998 as News Editor; responsible for the website's news service and stock market coverage.

Martin Morris began his career on a local newspaper in Philadelphia before moving back to the UK in the mid-1980s. Since then he has contributed to a number of publications including The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, International Money Marketing, Accountancy Age, Prospect, amongst others.


Laura Howard

Freelance Editor - Laura Howard

A specialist in the housing and mortgage markets, Laura is a regular contributor to the Independent on Sunday and Guardian Unlimited. She also writes for consumer magazines, What Mortgage and Moneywise as well as trade journals, including Financial Adviser, Mortgage Solutions and Lending Strategy.

Laura is the author of A Girl's Guide to Money, published in 2005 in the United States and available in UK bookshops from August 2007.


Harriet Meyer

Freelance Editor - Harriet Meyer

Former staff reporter on The Daily Telegraph Your Money; winnner of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Up and Coming Financial Journalist of the Year award. She covers a broad range of personal finance issues, contributing regularly to various national newspapers, as well as glossy magazines and websites.

Previously produced BBC Radio Five Live's 'Wake up to Money' and business news for Radio 4's Today Programme.


Brian Tora

Features - Brian Tora

Brian Tora's long career in the investment industry has seen him hold many senior positions in a variety of firms, the most recent role being that of Investment Communications Director of Gerrard Investment Management Limited, one of the largest firms serving the Private Client market in the UK, with 22 offices and over £14 billion worth of funds under management. This position made him the principal investment spokesman of the firm. He is a much sought after writer on financial matters, with regular columns in a wide variety of publications, and can also be heard regularly on radio or seen on television commenting on markets or the other issues that affect the financial world.


Samantha Downes

Features - Samantha Downes

A financial, business, news and lifestyle journalist who has contributed to national newspapers, trades, women's glossies and teenage magazines, including Eve, Glamour, The Guardian, and the Mirror. Her first book, Virgin Money , a finance guide for young people, was published in 2003. Samantha specialises in pensions and investments.


Darren Beach

Features - Darren Beach

A freelance journalist specialising in property, personal finance and sport, he was staff writer of Hot Property, freelance money editor at NTLworld and is an editor at Virgin Media. He spent four years at BBC Ceefax and has been a freelance contributor to several sport and London-related magazines and websites as well as publishing the book London's Cemeteries in 2006.


Pamela Atherton

Features - Pamela Atherton

A former staff writer on Money Management and former editor of Pensions Management magazine; now contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian and Sunday Business, Pensions Age, Pensions Management, Pensions World and Pensions Week.

Although a specialist on pensions, she also writes on a broad range other personal finance and investment issues. Pamela Atherton has won six awards for excellence in financial journalism.


Karen Beavis

Features - Karen Beavis

A freelance journalist specialising in personal finance; experience includes a long stint as deputy editor of trade publication Mortgage Finance Gazette and contributions to the Times, Independent on Sunday and Evening Standard.

She started with the General Electric Company as assistant editor of its in-house journal and later on became assistant editor of PR Week. For many years she also contributed to a number of magazines including Woman's Journal and Ms London.


Annie Shaw

Features - Annie Shaw

A former staff journalist on The Times and the Sunday Telegraph, now freelance; she started on Campaign, the advertising industry magazine, but soon moved into financial journalism, which she has been involved in for most of her career, apart from four years on the foreign desk of The Times and a year as property editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

She has freelanced for most national newspapers and contributed to magazines such as Moneywise, Choice, Marks & Spencer's You and Your Money, and trade titles such as Money Marketing. She now runs her own financial bulletin board website: CashQuestions.com.


Stewart Farr

Features - Stewart Farr

A freelance editorial consultant; specialist in business to business and technical publications, including more than 25 years experience as editor of journals for the life insurance and pensions/investment industry.

His business knowledge and experience also extends to the medical and pharmaceutical, catering, vending and soft drinks industries.


Neil Craze

Features - Neil Craze

After reading finance at university Neil began working in the City with a financial PR firm. After a few years working in the industry Neil moved into financial journalism writing regulary for various publications. He is editor of private investment website Dawntraders and is a qualified stockbroker and a member of the Securities and Investment Institute.


Gaynor Pengelly

Features - Gaynor Pengelly

Gaynor Pengelly is a personal finance journalist who writes for The Mail on Sunday, Independent, Yorkshire Post and various glossy magazines. Previously, Gaynor worked as the interviewer on The Mail on Sunday's Rich Report, a glossy dossier on Britain's wealthy. In 2000 she was nominated for a British Press Award.


Emma Lunn

Features - Emma Lunn

A former staff writer on the Kent & Sussex Courier and Money Marketing; Emma is now a freelance personal finance writer who regularly contributes to the Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express as well as several trade and consumer mortgage titles.


Jane Ladds

Features - Jane Ladds

From the business section of New Zealand's "The Press" newspaper to managing news for the Prime Minister's website in the UK - Jane has detailed experience of overseas markets and UK financial issues. She has written for Standard Life, produced ITV documentaries and regards herself as a canny investor too.


Martin Fagan

Features - Martin Fagan

A financial journalist since 1995, Martin has worked for the financial website UK-iNvest.com, was the editor of Personal Finance magazine for six years before moving across to edit sister publication, What Investment for a year. Although well versed in all aspects of investment, he also covers pensions (and is often scathing about the pensions industry and the Government), insurance, mortgages, banking, savings as well as the wider economic and political framework affecting all these issues.