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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 ...

Autumn Statement: Hammond needs to untangle the pension mess "If I had known how much of my adult career would have involved worrying about other people's pensions I think I might have chosen another path," writes Merryn Somerset-Webb in the Financial Times. "These days everything seems to bring me back to the same subject." After a week when everyone appeared to be publishing a report on some aspect of pensions, here on Professional Adviser, we know how she feels. In her FT column this week, Somerset-Webb takes the unusual approach of arguing high-earners have also lost out from auste...

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