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 …

Rising retirement age means smart saving is more important than ever Life expectancy may be on the rise and the government remains keen to push back the state retirement age further but two pieces of research highlighted by this Express article - which is subtitled "Who wants to work forever?" - suggests there are limits to Britain's "work until you drop" culture. While a report by Aegon research suggests two in five of today's retirees are forced to stop working before reaching state pension age due to illness or redundancy, research by Just Retirement has found many women stop workin...

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