Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The Budget, more Budget and adequate retirement saving - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

A sneak peak inside the chancellor's red box … With Philip Hammond set to deliver his Autumn Budget on Wednesday, the Guardian's Patrick Collinson joins most of the rest of the financial press this weekend taking a stab at predicting what the Chancellor might pull out of his red box. "Don't expect much in the way of fireworks", he cautions, pointing out Hammond's hands are largely tied in the face of Brexit uncertainty, tight public finances and a gradually worsening economic outlook for the UK. Collinson goes on to predict the Chancellor will cut stamp duty for first-time buyers and t...

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