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A quick scan of what your clients may have read in the nationals over the weekend...

With-profits It's that time of year when the big insurance companies announce how their with-profits funds fared in 2011 and declare annual bonuses. According to the Mail on Sunday, it will be a tense time for savers. Zurich could be the first to announce, perhaps by the end of the month, and the paper said the funds with high proportions of gilts are likely to have performed well due to the eurozone crisis. Income without risk How can investors get the most income whilst taking as little risk as possible? It was a question the Sunday Telegraph tried to answer, looking at scenarios f...

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