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My dad is totally fed up with the amount of paperwork he gets from his investments. The last time he...

My dad is totally fed up with the amount of paperwork he gets from his investments. The last time he had just been sent five copies of a fund report from HSBC for the grandchildren"s investments,which, incidentally, are all in trackers. I finally managed to persuade him of the benefits of using a wrap, naturally Hargreaves Lansdown"s own. The providers generate so much literature that no one has a hope of ever being able to read it all. In fact, if clients read everything a provider gave them, they"d probably never be able to make a decision. Most clients hoard boxes of paper without a ...

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