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 …

Definitive historic analysis: How long will £100,000 last if you draw £4,000 a year? The question of how long their savings will last after they have stopped working is likely to be to the forefront of most pensioners' minds - and is only likely to have grown in significance since pension freedom was introduced in April 2015. This Telegraph article therefore considers how a balanced portfolio split between UK shares and bonds would have served hypothetical savers who retired in each year since 1900. With the help of investment analyst FinalytiQ, the piece considers three different scen...

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