Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Imminent market 'earthquake', uneasy fund managers and 'cash-trashing financial duds' - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Top investor who predicted recent share sell-off says an ‘earthquake' is about to hit markets To be honest, it was actually the Telegraph headline on Why it's harder than ever to be a DIY investor that first caught our eye but it is one of those premium articles that brings down the shutters after three paragraphs. As such, all we can pass on are dark mutterings about "increasing intervention from regulators who appear to want to cut off ordinary savers' access to investments deemed ‘too complex". Then, just as Killik & Co founder Paul Killik notes "a lot of very intelligent private in...

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