Help With Child Trust Fund!

sarahmoo

Ok....left it soooo late to send this damn thing off...dillied and dallied

In a nutshell, which is the best deal?


Please help!
Cheers!!

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

Hi Sarah
We scoured the net and the YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY came out tops , We have just deposited my little ones £250 with them at a rate of i think it was 7%

Take a look here
http://www.yorkshirebuildingsociety.co.uk/ctf/need_to_know.jsp

Give your local branch a call to make sure

Hope thsi helps :j

Glad

Hi, Martin’s asked me to post this: There’s an article on the main site you might like to read that gives more information on this subject.

see here

Woby_Tide

depends on attitude to risk as well, Sunday Times had following article on Sunday

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9554-1985375,00.html

They included some Stakeholder figures too for returns on the 2/3 of a year covered by CTF so far

[size=-1]HOW THE STAKEHOLDER CTFs COMPARE[/size][size=-1]Fund[/size][size=-1]Performance¹[/size][size=-1]CTF Provider[/size]
[size=-1]Abbey Balanced International Tracking fund [/size][size=-1]16% [/size][size=-1]Abbey[/size][size=-1]CIS [/size]
[size=-1]FTSE4Good Index Tracker [/size][size=-1]12.7% [/size][size=-1]The Children¹s Mutual[/size]
[size=-1]Family Investments Stakeholder [/size][size=-1]13.2% [/size][size=-1]Family Investments[/size]
[size=-1]HSBC UK Growth & Income [/size][size=-1]14.5% [/size][size=-1]HSBC[/size]
[size=-1]Homeowners Investment Growth fund [/size][size=-1]13.9% [/size][size=-1]Engage[/size]
[size=-1]Insight Investment Foundation Growth [/size][size=-1]15.7% [/size][size=-1]The Children¹s Mutual[/size]

[size=-1]¹ 06/04/05 to 31/12/05[/size][size=-1]Source: Financial Express Analytics/Chase de Vere[/size]

sarahmoo

Sorry for delay in replying (so damn busy)

CHecking it all out now....thanks to all for your tips x