By: Annabelle Williams

I'm deputy money editor at City A.M. I started my career on a local newspaper before moving into financial journalism. I've worked in a number of senior editorial roles including news editor and features editor. I write about global economics, investment, technology, and personal finance.

As help to buy winds down, caps on savings schemes will only hinder home ownership

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Help to Buy, an equity loan scheme, helped hundreds of thousands of first time buyers get on the housing ladder, as it ends, it makes lifting the cap on Lifetime ISAs all the more important, writes Annabelle Williams
Make £££ interest on top current accounts this year

Savers have been dealt a double whammy of blows this month. The Bank of England cut interest rates from their already-record low of 0.5 per cent down to a paltry 0.25 per cent, which is likely to have an impact on the already poor levels of interest paid on savings accounts. The 0.5 level was considered [...]
Four of the best: Investment opportunities from around the globe

Markets have been turbulent this year and much talk has focused on potential risks. A smattering of uncertainties to consider include the ramifications of the Brexit vote and whether the UK will enter recession. Nor does anyone know how extraordinary monetary policy in Europe will pan out, or the ultimate impact there’ll be from the trillions [...]

Four reasons why you should think about switching your bank account

August 10, 2016

Banks are going to offer customers more sophisticated digital products following an order from competition chiefs. Every high street bank alongside the only-online “challenger” banks will soon have to launch an app where customers can see all of their accounts in one place. It will also allow people to see better deals among competitor banks, so [...]
Hope for Brazil: Away from the Olympics, it’s politically troubled with a crumbling economy, but can Brazil turn a corner?

August 8, 2016

The Rio Olympics have got off to a great start, but this year’s host country has largely been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The spreading of the Zika virus is a worrying development for Brazilian authorities, who are firefighting on several fronts, including corruption probes and a troubled economy It wasn’t like this when [...]
The pound has not been so sterling after Brexit: How currency weakness will hit our travel plans, inflation and trade

August 8, 2016

The pound has been steadily falling as the Brexit referendum and Bank of England’s moves to shore up the economy have pushed investors into selling the pound. Its downward slide over the last 12 months means sterling is now worth 16 per cent less against the dollar, at £1/$1.31, compared to £1/$1.56 previously. It’s even [...]
Long Weekend: Newly opened hotel Innside New York NoMad offers to give guests the goss on Manhattan’s coolest hang outs

August 5, 2016

The weekend: The epicentre of the world according to every Armageddon-themed movie ever made, New York’s also a welcoming, walkable city which begs to be visited when the days are long, the spirits high, and the air-con’s omnipresent. Its familiarity belies a forever changing chameleon of a personality, as the heaving bulk of an 8m-plus [...]
Bank rate cut: Property investment crowned winner while savers lose out

August 5, 2016

The Bank of England launched a massive stimulus package yesterday in a bid to save Britain from recession. The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted unanimously to slash interest rates to an all-time low of 0.25 per cent. Take a look at the winners and losers of the rate cut: WINNER: Property investment The cut to interest rates is [...]
Sterling falls as the Bank of England moves to prop up the economy – but how will a weaker pound affect your finances?

August 4, 2016

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How to help your kids handle money

August 3, 2016

Getting the younger generation engaged with money matters is more crucial than ever. The lot of today’s young is radically different to their parent’s, and being financially literate is an increasingly important life skill. “Teaching proper money management is possibly one of the best gifts you can give your children. It could save them untold stress [...]

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