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'What fund bosses knew but never told us'

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Woodford, ESG ratings and retirement home prices - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Neil Woodford scandal: What fund bosses knew but never told us The Woodford scandal keeps on taking more twists and turns and the latest comes from The Sunday Times, which reports that us what many investors were not told about the failing fund. The article says the firm overseeing the fund, Link Fund Solutions, knew of its risky holdings but did not warn investors of such risks. Several requests of information sent by Hargreaves Lansdown, which reportedly raised questions a number of times about the shares held in Woodford's failed fund, were turned down or met with reassurance fr...

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