Five things clients will call you about this week

Volatility The Sunday Times urges readers to hedge against volatility, as markets rally in Britain and the US. The run in the UK is the third biggest in 94 years - and both of those concluded with sharp falls. Mining Natural resources funds have performed very poorly in recent months. Rising raw material and labour costs, along with falling commodity prices, have meant a large percentage of bottom quartile funds have come from the sector, the FT says. Gold Fund managers have been betting heavily on a falling gold price, which has led to further speculation about whether investor...