Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Investing in the beautiful game, the investment trust/property space love story and why major banks are failing savers - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Which football clubs have their shares quoted on the stock market - and which ones should you buy?  As Premier League football resumes, this Telegraph piece, considers which clubs offer opportunities for investors. Despite being an enormous global business there are surprisingly few clubs quoted on the stock market, it says.  Manchester United, in which Nick Train is a shareholder, has shares worth a collective £2.8bn. Train bought the shares for his Finsbury Growth & Income investment trust in 2017. He said: "We regard the current market value of the club as low - certainly relative t...

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