Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The threat of rising mortgage rates, funds for volatile times and over-50s funeral plans - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Forget stockmarket volatility - the biggest threat to your wealth is rising mortgage rates Your clients may - understandably enough - be concerned with the volatility investment markets have been experiencing this month but, argues this Telegraph article, the Bank of England's rate rise warnings are more significant. After the UK's central bank flagged the possibility of multiple rate rises in 2018 and its climbing "swap rates", the piece explains, homeowners should be bracing for rising costs. As an example, broker London & Country reckons someone with a £300,000 mortgage with a stand...

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