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 ...

Are other people paying less than you for the same investments? Don't be too surprised - or offended - if a client calls you up on Monday morning just to reassure themselves about how you are charging them. It may just mean they have read this Telegraph article, which recounts how its author spoke with "five of the most prominent wealth managers and found it difficult to extract even the most basic information about charges", such as initial fees, ongoing charges and annual caps. The quintet - Hargreaves Lansdowne, St James's Place, Chase de Vere, Towry and Standard Life's advice arm 18...

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