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

Loans at up to 16%

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Rebooting retirement, bridging loans and consolidating pension pots - here's your weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

How Covid-19 rebooted retirement If coronavirus has brought a positive, writes the Financial Times' it has focused people on mapping out their retirement plans. In this article several financial planners tell the FT that the pandemic has encouraged people in their 50s and 60s to re-evaluate what matters most to them, while also giving them a taster for what retirement could be like. Satis Wealth Chartered financial planner David Hearne tells the newspaper that, as a result, some of his clients are in the process of moving across the country to be closer to their children and grandc...

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