The Sunday Times continues SJP investigation - three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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SJP funds are compared and savers are guided on investing for the climate - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

St James's Place charges more for near-identical funds The Sunday Times continued its investigation of St James's Place over the weekend by assessing the performance of the advice giant's "best in breed" funds.  It starts by explaining that managers of 13 of the firm's exclusive funds run similar versions of the products elsewhere for all investors to access - and that only one of the SJP-branded funds has out-performed over five years. The Sunday ‘paper also looks at all of SJP's funds through the advice company's own fund comparator. Of the 40 funds, 14 have no index to compare p...

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