Three things your client may call you about this week ...

'£50,000 lost overnight'

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Expensive care, volatile funds and stamp duty holidays - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...

One million Brits to pay £38k extra a year for care after Covid crunch More than a million Britons may be forced to pay an extra £40,000 a year to be cared for at home because of the crisis of confidence coronavirus has created in the care industry, The Telegraph reports. One fifth of over-60s are rethinking how they would manage their later years as they have ruled out living in care homes, after the high number of deaths in the facilities during the pandemic, Canada Life research has found. Caroline Abrahams of Age UK, the charity, says: "It's not at all surprising given what's ha...

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