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 …

  I don't have the cash to live too long The Queen's 91st birthday and the longevity of Emma Morano - at 117, the oldest person in the world until her recent death - finds the writer of this Sunday Times article contemplating his mortality. And whether his meagre pension pot combined with likely state pension age - as calculated by a state pension age calculator - will see him through his expected lifespan - as calculated by a life expectancy calculator. As the numbers are not too comforting, the piece is accompanied by the traditional "Pension priorities top tips for saving", with ...

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