Five things clients will call you about this week

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Here are our picks of the stories your clients may have read in the weekend newspapers...

RDR The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is finally beginning to appear in the nationals. The FT carries a report highlighting the growing fear of an advice gap, as well as widespread ignorance about RDR. Foreign bonds Is there a bubble in foreign bonds?, asks the Sunday Times. Inflows into emerging market bond funds have doubled in the first nine months of this year, despite warnings from leading bond mangers the sector could be overheating. Drawdown The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has joined a campaign by the Mail on Sunday against the government's changes to drawdow...

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