Three things your clients may call you about this week …

Tory manifesto, Vanguard and saving for retirement

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Tory manifesto: 10 ways your finances would be affected Top ‘click-bait' from The Telegraph this weekend as this - perhaps predictably ‘premium' - article looks at the 10 proposals in the Conservative manifesto, published last week , which the paper reckons will have a "dramatic impact on the finances of millions of Britons" and to which its readers should therefore pay closest attention. No prizes for guessing that top of the list is "scrapping winter fuel payments" - or, more precisely, the introduction of means-testing, which The Telegraph suggests will see just 11% of the millions ...

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