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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 …

Advisers win prizes for every pound you invest St James' Place (SJP) is back on the front page of the Sunday Times Money section for the third time in a month - this time as a result of what this article describes as "a ‘Nectar points' style system" that rewards the firm's most successful advisers "for every £1 of your money they draw into the business". "But don't call it a commission," the piece adds - the line's sarcasm matching its prominence. The last two times SJP has been the subject of the Sunday Times's attention it has been as a result of what it charges but now it is how it ...

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