A financial adviser has called for a reporting procedure to be introduced to protect vulnerable elderly people from being pressured into cashing in their investments.

He made the appeal after describing his sense of helplessness when, over just a few months, three of his elderly clients turned up accompanied by “strangers” who persuaded them to cash in their investments.

He was convinced that these clients, in their 70s and 80s, had fallen victim to abuse but had no idea how he could help.

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