Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The year ahead; power of attorney pitfalls; and the dangers of being overly cautious - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

What will happen to your money in 2019? The one word on everyone's lips when it comes to predicting money matters for the year ahead is "optimistic", jokes this article in the Independent. More seriously, the piece goes on to correct itself, the issue on everyone's mind is of course the B-word: Brexit. On the investment front, Share Centre chief executive Richard Stone tells Indy readers, the Brexit outcome will define what happens to the market and people's savings in 2019. If there is an extension to Article 50, which he expects, he suggests markets will be volatile in early 2019 but...

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