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Hargreaves trust lower post-Woodford

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Trust in Hargreaves Lansdown has dropped, retirement plans are on hold due to coronavirus and intergenerational wealth planning is on the up - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend..

Trust in Hargreaves Lansdown takes a dive after Woodford Hargreaves Lansdown customers have apparently "lost faith" in the platform giant, The Sunday Times reports this weekend. An annual poll of 1,449 investors by the consumer group Which reported by The Sunday Times has, for the first time, shown confidence has "ebbed away" in Hargreaves amid the fallout from the collapse of Neil Woodford saga, which resulted in some customers of the investment platform losing money. Hargreaves spent six years at the top of Which?'s annual survey, and was last year beaten by Vanguard on the bas...

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