Articles, tagged with "child trust fund", page 2

Saving For Your Children's Future

Many parents take the view that for their children to learn about budgeting, one of the best ways to educate them is to get them a savings account. Thanks to a range of schemes and special child bank accounts, parents have an increasingly a popular and ea... Read >
Author: Mark Bartley

Securing Your Child's Future

Child Trust Funds were launched over five years ago to help kick-start a savings culture in the UK and promote greater knowledge of personal finance and responsibility. By enabling parents, grandparents, other family members and friends to contribu... Read >
Author: Adam Singleton

Using Child Trust Funds

Preparing for your child's future is important. If your child was born on or after 1 September 2002 and you are in receipt of Child Benefit for them, they will be eligible for a Child Trust Fund (CTF) account. The CTF was introduced by the previous govern... Read >
Author: Paul Buchanan

What is the Future of the Child Trust Fund?

What will happen to the Child Trust Fund now that a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government has been agreed? During their thirteen years in power, one of the many schemes the Labour Party bought in was the Child Trust Fund. The scheme work... Read >
Author: amnorge

What Is A Child Trust Fund?

To encourage saving, and to ensure people get a good start in adult life, the Government will pay £250 in the form of a child trust fund to every baby born on or after 1st September 2002. Essentially a child trust fund is a long term savings account, whe... Read >
Author: Mark Bartley

3 Essentials When Your Child Is Born

You’ve has the bag packed weeks in advance. The bedroom in your London apartment is decorated in yellow as you haven’t found out the sex. You have nappies and bibs in droves. You think you are prepared for parenthood but that is just the begin... Read >
Author: Steven Tomey

What next for child trust funds?

Child Trust Funds (CTFs) were introduced by the government in 2005 to give children a good financial start in life, and in the few years since they've launched, the take-up has been ever increasing. According to The Children's Mutual - a provider of ch... Read >
Author: MarkeD

Poorer Families not benefiting from Child Trust Fund

The Conservative party believe that poorer families are not benefiting from the child trust fund. The have said the majority of children who will benefit from the Labour introduced scheme will be those from wealthier families. This is based on statistics ... Read >
Author: amnorge

Positives and Negatives of the Child Trust Fund

The Child Trust Fund is a government scheme introduced to encourage parents to save on behalf of their children. Depending on which way you look at the scheme it has both positives and negatives. Those who are pro child trust fund claim that it helps ... Read >
Author: amnorge

A Quick Guide to ISAs

Offering up a tax-efficient way to invest money, ISAs (Individual Savings Accounts) are one of the smartest ways to maximise the value of your savings. Indeed, allowing people under the age of 50 to invest up to £7,200 every year tax-free - those aged ov... Read >
Author: Jonathan Wallace

An Overview of Child Trust Funds

The Government announced earlier this month that the number of children with a Child Trust Fund has reached over 3 million. However, The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Kitty Ussher, also highlighted that only three-quarters of parents have actively... Read >
Author: John Simon

Using your child trust fund: easy as learning your ABC

Like the kids who'll be the first to benefit from them, the Child Trust Fund has done a lot of growing up in the four and a half years since it was launched. Introduced in January 2005, the accounts are designed to ensure every child has some savings... Read >
Author: Graeme Knights

Child Trust Fund Policy – The different between the 3 parties

The Conservative Party have been setting out their policies for the 2010 general election at their party conference in Manchester. Top of the British political agenda currently is finding ways of reducing the amount of public debt. Amongst the Party's pla... Read >
Author: amnorge

Boost your child's savings

If your son or daughter is set to celebrate their seventh birthday this month, they will be among the first to receive a present from the Government in the form of a top-up to their tax-free Child Trust Fund (CTF). Launched in 2005 with the aim of givi... Read >
Author: MarkeD

Are UK Universities Too Expensive?

As thousands of teenagers look over their A-Level results and decide what to do next, research from Child Trust Fund provider The Children's Mutual, has highlighted the cost of a three year university study to students and their parents. So are UK univers... Read >
Author: MarkeD

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