Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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SJP 'perks', pensions for kids, and state pension age changes - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

St James's Place investors pay for fun afloat St James's Place advisers have to bring in £150,000 from clients to win a place on the advice giant's annual "jaunt" - described as a "business trip" - according to The Sunday Times. In this article it says that "business trip" is a cruise around the Balearic islands on a "luxury liner" for the use of the company's best-selling advisers. The article claims the more money SJP advisers bring into the business, the bigger the perks, which include business-class flights, all expenses-paid cruises in glamorous locations and lavish entertainment...

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