Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Platform 'blackout periods'; and people 'in the dark' on both investments and digital tax changes - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Investors face ‘unacceptable' delays to switch platforms Investors are being forced to wait up to six months to move pensions and investments from one investment platform to another, according to this Financial Times piece - and this is despite heavy pressure from the financial regulator, which argues the process should take a fraction of that time. The article goes on to say platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown and Interactive Investor have told the FT new customers are still having to wait several months for their accounts to be transferred from rival providers, due to slow manual p...

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