25 June 2024
Why I wish I’d saved more for my childrenBig milestones in our lives usually coincide with big personal finance decisions, or at least give...
About the expert
Danni Hewson is AJ Bell's Head of Financial Analysis. She joined the company in 2021 and is responsible for producing analysis and commentary across a broad range of subjects, from financial markets to economics and personal finance. She has a degree in English Language and Literature from DeMontfort University and a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Leeds Trinity University.
Previously, Danni spent more than 19 years at the BBC, presenting and reporting on business news across a variety of programmes including BBC Breakfast, BBC News Channel, BBC Look North and Radio 5 Live’s flagship business programme ‘Wake up to Money’. She’s a regular contributor on TV and radio outlets including LBC, Times Radio, Good Morning Britain and Talk TV. She has interviewed Prime Ministers, business leaders and more than a few celebrities over the years.
She has spent time exploring the UK’s business landscape such as oil rigs off the coast of Scotland, the UK’s last deep coal mine and manufacturers of products from aeroplane hydraulics to super cars.
Danni is also one of the founding ambassadors of AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign, which is aimed at helping women become more confident with their finances. She hosts a bi-weekly podcast covering a range of topics and writes articles for the Money Matters domain.
Outside of work, Danni loves baking and boxing and is a mum of two teenage girls.
Latest articles from Danni Hewson
24 May 2024
Why you should get started investing todaySince the launch of AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign three years ago, more women have started...
3 May 2024
How a pay rise can equal £10,000 extra in your pensionThe start of the new financial year tends to be when many of us really think about our own financial...
5 March 2024
Why don’t more women invest?The gender wealth gap is alive and kicking – something highlighted at the start of the year by...
4 December 2023
How to prevent a financial hangover this ChristmasThere have been plenty of surveys suggesting we’re all intending to spend less this Christmas, but...
22 September 2023
Tight vote to hold rates at 5.25% but door left open for further hikeIt was about as close as it gets but today’s decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee brings to an end almost two years of consecutive hikes and will be welcomed by homeowners and businesses alike.
Increasing the cost of borrowing was intended to cause pain, and to make people think twice about spending their hard-earned cash in...
12 July 2023
PageGroup struggles with UK jobs market, UK banks pass stress test and Wetherspoons sees strong sales growth“US inflation figures are at the top of the agenda for investors with a new data set to be released this afternoon. Analysts and economists expect the annual inflation rate to have slowed to 3.1% in June versus 4% in May. That would be the lowest level in more than two years. However, on a monthly basis it is expected to have hit 0.3%, up from 0.1%...
5 April 2023
Direct Line lifted by upgrade, takeover bid for Franco Manco owner Fulham Shore“The FTSE 100 is heading into Easter with a spring in its step despite weaker than expected data from the US,” says AJ Bell head of financial analysis Danni Hewson.
“Figures on job openings and factory orders are pointing towards a potential recession for the world’s largest economy, but the upside might be a pause in interest rates which would...
4 April 2023
US job openings in focus, Saga’s statutory loss widens on insurance impairments and Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy“The prospect of mega deals in the mining space has got investors excited, bringing a new lease of life to the sector which had previously been suffering from fears about weaker economic activity feeding through to reduced commodities demand,” says Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell.
“ Glencore led the FTSE 100 higher on Tuesday...
3 April 2023
FTSE lifted by oil heavyweights as crude prices surge on OPEC cut, Cineworld equity holders braced for wipe-out“The world needed a spike in oil prices like a hole in the head. Just as one of the pinch points in the global economy had started to ease, Saudi Arabia and its counterparts in OPEC have unveiled a surprise output cut,” says Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell.
“The decision by the oil producers’ cartel, unusually taken outside of...
