Biography
Author : Amanda Gillam
Amanda Gillam is Solution Loans's General Manager and has been since 2009. She is also a prolific writer on personal finance issues, and has been quoted numerous times in articles published on 3rd party websites and in press releases. Her interest in the world of money, and more importantly how people manage it, goes right back to 2002. She joined Solution Loans in 2005. She gets great satisfaction helping people to keep up to date with developments. If there is a subject you'd like her or her team to write about then contact her through the Solution Loans website.
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