Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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One Woodford-related article; another Woodford-related article; and … millions of pensioners warned - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Revealed: funds that tie up your money in stocks you can't sell "Three of Britain's biggest fund managers invest in unlisted companies - the risky assets that ultimately caused Neil Woodford to halt withdrawals from his Equity Income fund because they are hard to sell to raise cash for investors," this Sunday Times article claims this weekend. The largest holder of unlisted stocks the paper discovered was Invesco Income, with 4.9% of the fund's portfolio in these assets at the end of March. It used to be more, with 6.89% held on 30 September 2018. Two other Invesco funds, High Income a...

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