Headlinemoney Awards 2017

AWARDS 2017

Expert of the Year

Winner Tom McPhail, Hargreaves Lansdown

Congratulations to Tom McPhail, head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, for being crowned this year’s expert of the year as nominated by the UK’s financial journalist community – always a tough- to-please crowd. Tom is Hargreaves Lansdown’s lead commentator on pensions and retirement planning, as well as being responsible for savings and regulatory policy issues. “Tom’s insight is without comparison and not only that he is usually first off the mark with helpful comments on every conceivable announcement and development in the world of pensions,” one magazine editor pointed out. “In a year when pensions has been at the top of the agenda, Tom has been there responding rapidly to events, providing early guidance on the key elements of a particular topic, and giving generously of his time to explain even the most complicated of retirement planning subjects,” a senior newspaper personal finance correspondent added.

Highly Commended Anna Bowes, Savings Champion

The Shortlist

• Anna Bowes, Savings Champion • David Hollingworth, London & Country Mortgages • Adrian Lowcock, Architas • Tom McPhail, Hargreaves Lansdown • Mike Morrison, AJ Bell

Commiserations to Anna who just failed to land top slot in this category. She had plenty of supporters, for example, the journalist who wrote “Anna is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to savings and freely rattles off what she knows at will. Best of all, she actually cares what she is talking about.”

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