'Zombie' investments, falling dividends and India - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …
Six zombie investments to sell now More than £1 trillion of investments are mouldering in "outdated" and "overcharging" products, according to Hargreaves Lansdown - and this Telegraph article highlights each one these "archaic" investments. The piece notes the headline figure includes £354bn in ‘easy access' cash accounts, £306bn in with-profits policies and £109bn in closet trackers. About a tenth of the money is in outdated political initiatives, with £100bn in stakeholder pensions and £5bn in child trust funds, which were replaced by the Junior Isa in 2011. The final "zombie" c...
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