Five things your clients will call you about this week

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Fears about the markets following last week's sell-off and the US credit downgrade will no doubt dominate clients' concerns this week. However, the weekend papers also featured warnings about pension growth predictions and annuities, an analysis of absolute return funds and a closer look at UK smaller companies funds.

Market turmoil The continuing market turmoil dominated the money pages of all the nationals and the Sunday Times tried to find answers to some of the key questions being posed by worried investors. While urging against selling stocks at the bottom of the market, it also suggested absolute return funds and balanced portfolios as protection against new falls. While it was predicted gold will continue to climb into next year, there was also a warning about the dangers of a subsequent fall. Pension growth predictions Millions of investors are being misled about the likely returns of t...

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