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 ...

Employers offering tasty cash carrots to encourage members to leave generous DB schemes Few things are more certain to set us journalists investigating a financial pothole than the prospect of it appearing imminently in our own journey along life's bumpy highway. And if you think that was a forced analogy, just check out how this Mail on Sunday article crowbars a reference to The Great British Bake-Off into its own first paragraph. Still, let's gloss over that because, spurred by the prospect of it happening shortly in her own life, Sally Hamilton provides a helpful examination of the ...

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