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What may have caught your clients' attention in our weekly weekend papers round-up...

Unicorn Asset Management has teamed up with discretionary fund manager WM Capital Management to launch an investment service built to provide inheritance tax (IHT) exemption to investors.

The majority of advisers have joined the chorus against a switch to ISA-style pension taxation, or move to introduce a flat rate of pension tax relief, research suggested.

No titanic struggle over pension ISAs

Pensions are finished, according to Johnson

A change in the way the government collects tax on pension savings will not make people save more way for their retirement, according to the latest consumer research.

ISA-style pensions don't 'stand up to scrutiny'

A mandatory requirement on providers to use Origo's Options Transfers service is among the suggestions for improving the efficiency of pension transfers.

National Savings & Investment (NS&I) is to cut the interest rate on its easy-access Direct ISA to 1.25%, a move experts said was a "bitter blow to savers" and further called into question the value of cash products.

Tax relief at the point of retirement saving is the most powerful way to get people to create a later life nest egg, according to Zurich, making it the latest provider to come out against the government's plans to treat pensions like ISAs.