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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 ...

Asset managers under fire over hidden pension fees The recent admission by Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane that even he finds pensions confusing received widespread coverage across the financial pages this weekend - including as a way into this Financial Times article, which highlights a new study that suggests the number of fees levied on a pension is three times higher than previously thought. According to the FT, the study - "the result of a year-long collaboration between up to 25 pension industry professionals, academics and legal experts, who were frustrated with a l...

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