Three things your client may call you about this week ...

The Times, The Telegraph and FT

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Investment pathways, complex financial advice and debt dangers - here's your weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Over-55s at the mercy of a new pensions ‘experiment' next month Incoming investment pathway rules, which from next month will see providers have to offer non-advised customers a default fund strategy based on their money plans when they hit the age of 55, have been dubbed "fundamentally flawed" and "potentially dangerous", writes The Telegraph. Providers are "licking their lips", the newspaper says, because the regulations will see pension providers potentially push retirees towards their own in-house funds. Aegon's Steven Cameron is one who believes the rules could be dangerous if pe...

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