Five things clients will call you about this week

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Here's our pick of what clients will have read in the weekend's newspapers…

Retirement dates The state pension changes will mean the majority of women will be better off, the Mail on Sunday reports. But for a group of women born between April 1953 and July 1953, a "double whammy" of policy changes could see them lose out. Two changes to the state pension age means those in the group may have to longer for their pension than they were originally told, as well as retiring with an inferior deal. Benchmarking More than half of fund managers currently lag behind the FTSE 100, the Sunday Times reports. The FTSE 100 is up 19% since the start of June last year. But ...

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