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Over 50s let it all hang out this Christmas

One in four over 50s want to spend Christmas alone or with friends, rather than having a traditional family celebration .
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Stay-at-home mums do almost £30k of unpaid work a year yet two thirds do not have life insurance

When it comes to life insurance, most families think about household income, but what about the value of whoever stays at home to look after the kids?
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Temperatures are set to drop to -8C today, is your home ready for the big freeze

Yesterday (30 Nov 2016) was the coldest November day in six years as temperatures dropped to -9.7C in some parts, while today - the official start of the meteorological Winter – temperatures are expected to plummet as low as -8C in the South.
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Funeral costs soar by 10 times the increase in the cost of living in a year – forcing families to cut corners on their loved ones’ send off

SunLife’s 2016 Cost of Dying report reveals funerals have more than doubled in price in little over a decade. Funerals now one of the UK’s fastest rising costs, outstripping inflation, wages and pensions.
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Do your loved ones know your funeral wishes?

My Perfect Send-off is a free online tool which gently prompts people to talk about their funeral wishes. The responses create a valuable document which can be kept with their will or sent to a loved one.
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Over a third of grandparents don’t trust children to pass on inheritance to grandkids

New research from SunLife has found that the vast majority of grandparents want to leave their grandchildren a legacy, and most of those want to ring fence the money to ensure it is passed on.
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Cost of Dying 2020

The average cost of dying is now at an all-time high of £9,493 that's a +3.1% increase since 2018.

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Ageist Britain?

At SunLife, we celebrate life after 50. In this report, we’re shining a light on the issue of casual ageism and the impact it has.

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Cost of Dying 2018

The average cost of dying is now £9,204 – a rise of 57% since we first started tracking the cost of dying 11 years ago.

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Equity Release 2018

A comfortable retirement, on the house – attitudes towards equity release among the over 55s.

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Cost of Dying 2017

In 2017, the average cost of dying was £8,905 – a 1.2% rise in a year and a rise of more than 50% since we first started tracking the cost of dying 10 years ago.

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Cash Happy 2017

An annual report which studies the day to day finances of more than 3,000 UK households.

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