Three things your clients may call you about this week ...

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend ...

Super-rich hit by slump in fortunes OK, we accept your clients are unlikely to be calling with too many specific questions about this year's Sunday Times Rich List - other than perhaps to ask how you might help get them into the 2017 version. Nevertheless, it is tough for any round-up of the weekend's financial pages to ignore this annual jaunt through the top-level numbers of the UK's rich and not always that famous. An online look at the whole list requires a subscription but you will find plenty of coverage elsewhere - with the BBC's Rich list 2016 reveals steel magnate's fortune dr...

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