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 ...

So you think you're an ‘ethical' investor, do you? For many, suggests this Telegraph article, any debate about whether to invest in a socially responsible way comes down to the performance of the funds versus their less ethically constrained counterparts. The piece goes on to argue, however, that a more important question these days is whether ethical investing actually lives up to its name. Many ethical funds do not publish detailed information about their investments, leaving people to judge them largely on their top 10 holdings, the article says. At the paper's request, however, inv...

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