Money makers: Sounding more British

Marketing graduate Lucy Earl's online English tutorials have won her a legion of fans and a steady income.

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Lucy Earl has proved a hit online with English learners

"The days of young students completing a Tefl teachingEnglish as a foreign language course and heading abroadto work are a thing of the past," say Fariha Karim and JackMalvern in The Times. Instead, teachers are cashing in onthe growing demand for online lessons, with sales of digitalEnglish lessons in the UK tripling since 2013. Few have beenas successful as marketing graduate Lucy Earl. "The formerWestminster University student, 22, has become an internetsensation since last year, when she began her YouTubeteaching course, English with Lucy."

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.