FROM THE PAPERS
Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin.
Date posted: Monday, May 19, 2014
ARTICLES
Financial Times:” Consumer group calls for action on stopgap annuities
. Regulator urged to issue temporary ban. Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” New mortgage rules lead to lending logjam “. Stricter application process is slowing down system
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Financial Times:” Should you buy in to the private equity buyout kings?
“. Private equity investments are returning to the market.
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The Times:” Rich double their wealth in five years”. Top 1,000 worth record £519bn
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The Times:” ‘Star scandals scare rich away from tax shelters”. Wealthy individuals are shunning aggressive tax shelter schemes after a string of negative headlines involving celebrity investors.
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The Times:” Complaints surge over high risk pensions”. Savers turn to the Ombudsman for help in recovering funds after being sold unregulated investment schemes
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The Times:” Savers targeted with alternatives to annuities”. Pension savers are being offered more choice about how to take income in retirement with two new products.
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The Telegraph:” AstraZeneca shares plummet as it rejects Pfizer’s ‘final’ offer “. Drugmaker’s share price falls 14pc after it says Pfizer’s £55-per-share ultimatum ‘falls short’ of AstraZeneca’s value as an independent company.
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The Telegraph:” House prices jump £10,000 in five weeks as Bank threatens to cap mortgages”. The average property is now on sale at a new record high of £272,003
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The Telegraph:” Cut a few luxuries to boost pension pot, says report. Making savings on alcohol, eating out and other luxuries could help you avoid an austere retirement, says pensions savings trust
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HELPFUL HINTS
1. LINKS TO ARTICLES:
We have now provided direct links to the articles referred to in the article. These can be accessed by click on the “To go directly to the article click here” at the end of each article summary
2. REQUIREMENT TO SUBSCRIBE TO SITES:
As some Opus Gold users will be aware, many of the broadsheet newspapers that are traditionally covered in our From the Papers bulletin, are changing (or have changed) their free online access to articles.
Currently the Financial Times and Weekend Financial Times only allows access to view 8 articles a month free, then requiring the user to subscribe to their online service. From 1 July 2010 The Times, Saturday Times and Sunday Times articles are no longer available for free online. Instead a daily or monthly fee will have to be paid to access the articles.
We are aware of the inconvenience this will cause to our users. Unfortunately, due to the stringent copyright rules enforced by the newspapers we are not allowed to copy the articles onto our bulletin to make them available to Opus Gold users, thus our only option is to put a direct link to the article on the newspapers own website.
Although we will continue to produce From the Papers bulletins linking to these articles, users should be aware that access to many will now be blocked unless a personal subscription to the newspapers site is taken.
Once again we apologise for this inconvenience but this is something outside of our control.
QUICK LINKS
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