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 …

Psycho Phil's dividend raid betrays our pensioners Not altogether surprisingly, the weekend papers were awash with coverage of the main stories from the Budget, which you will have read on this site last week. For his part, in his Sunday Times column, Ian Cowie had some news that may have come as a surprise to older clients who could have thought the absence of much in the way of pensions tinkering meant the Budget had left them unaffected. As the headline suggests, Cowie is clearly angry with Chancellor "Psycho Phil" Hammond for slashing the dividend tax allowance first outlined in th...

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