Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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SJP's sales tactics; £28bn grabbed by pensioners 'early'; and 'unfair' state pensions credit forms - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Secret dossier leaks St James's Place sales tactics St James's Place (SJP) advisers are encouraged to play down the impact that charges can have on returns to investors, The Sunday Times alleges in this article. A document leaked to the Sunday ‘paper, alleged to be an SJP sales dossier, reveals an illustrated guide that shows how fees should be presented to the advice giant's clients. In nine graphics, advisers are shown how they should explain costs to the client as a single charge. Another two illustrations represent how the fees appear to just be a small piece of the overall inv...

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