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 …

Will it be a happy new year for your investment funds? Following a particularly turbulent year for ‘business as usual' politics and, as a consequence, global markets, this Guardian article consults a range of experts on what investors might expect from the coming year. These include J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Stephanie Flanders, Schroders' Alex Tedder and Jupiter's Edward Bonham Carter - whose thoughts you may well have read on Professional Adviser last week. Bearing in mind whom it consulted previously, the piece ends on rather a Scrooge-like note - asking "Do investment gurus rea...

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