Samantha Downes
Based in: London
Topic expertise: State pension, personal and company pensions, mortgages, life insurance, parenting, consumer issues and health.
Samantha is a senior news reporter for the Daily Express - online and print and started her career in local newspapers as an NCTJ trainee.
She joined The Express in November after specialising in pensions and investment journalism as an investigative reporter for both trade and national publications including the Financial Times, City AM, and Pensions Expert.
Samantha writes about midlife and parenting money issues for her own substack and is a financial commentator on TV and radio, she has authored two books on personal finance and is keen to hear from anyone who feel they may have been scammed or misled.
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