Five things clients will call you about this week

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It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

Affording retirement With figures suggesting 1.4m people are already working beyond the state retirement age, the Guardian sought to explain to readers how they could retire. For the self-employed readers, the advice was to reach profitability and then find the most tax-efficient way to extract these profits by making pension contributions. There were also some tips for private and public-sector employees, although the general message was that it is important to start saving as soon as possible. ISA losses Financial advisers will always be the first to tell clients not to worry ab...

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