Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Boris Johnson's implications for personal finance; Terry Smith's flagship fund; and Mick Jagger's approach to retirement planning - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Your money under a Boris Johnson government It's a headline that could be found in pretty much every personal finance section over the weekend, although this particular example is from this Financial Times article. It kicks off with the warning the UK's new prime minister issued last week as he stood on the steps of Number 10: "People who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts." The piece homes in on the "binary outcome" it now says faces UK investors - whether domestic-facing stocks still have further to fall given the increasing fears of a no-deal Brexit or if, "despite h...

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