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Power of attorney IFAs with power of attorney over their clients' financial affairs may get some enquiries for reassurance following a piece in the Mail on Sunday about an RAF veteran who was "betrayed" by his financial adviser. Albert Regan was 91 and living in a care home when £90,000 was invested into property on the Atlantic island resort of Cape Verde, in a Stirling Mortimer unregualted collective investment scheme, by his long-standing financial adviser, Brian Jones. Lawyers for the family of Mr Reegan, who died in April, are claiming the investment was mis-sold. Emerging market ...

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