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What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Lifetime Isas are not too complicated or dangerous, Ros Two Professional Adviser regulars were ranged against each other in The Mail over the weekend, with AJ Bell's Tom Selby writing this response to the views of former pensions minister Ros Altmann, a day earlier, that the Lifetime Isa (LISA) should be abandoned and young savers should beware if they are tempted to open one. Altmann's view the LISA is too complicated for young people and dangerous for those considering it as an alternative to a pension is "deeply offensive to a large section of the population", he says. Selby char...

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