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Listener Questions Episode 22: Financial Planning for Children

Listener Questions Episode 22: Financial Planning for Children

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 This week, Pete and Roger answer your questions about investing and planning for children, including trusts, life insurance and how to keep tax low. Shownotes: https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA22 01:35 Question 1 Hi, A friend recommended your podcast in mid-Dec and have already listened to the Financial Advice Process and Combining Pensions episodes (which were both 100% relevant) and working my way through the Q&A episodes. I have a question about share trading accounts for my children (14, 13 and 11). They are in a fortunate position where they all have JISA's (held at Hargreaves Lansdown) which I contribute to (max amount) and manage, without their knowledge. My wife and I also hold ISA's at HL as well, which we max out. I was taught to be a saver as a child, not an investor, and this is something I have learnt more about as I get older. Your recent Q&A podcasts mentioned a couple of times about looking forward and not back - there is nothing I can do about my historic saving, and wish this was invested rather than saved!! However, my children are a lot more savvy about investing, than I ever was at their age. The two oldest children play a game called Business Empire and are multi trillionaires, I'd like to teach them the benefits of investing in the real world, but that it might not be quite as easy as Business Empire! We have discussed setting up a separate trading accounts for the children, putting some money in (poss £3k / £5k) and the children then managing the investment decisions. I want to keep the accounts separate from their JISA, so they don't get visibility of their JISA. Preferably I own the account and login, and the children can then ask me the value or ask me to execute trades on their behalf, which they request. They will make all the investment decisions. I recognise that they could turn £3k / £5k into zero quite quickly! Let's hope that Business Empire teaches them something. The only way I have found to be able to set up trading accounts for the children is that I set up a Bear Trust for the children, which seems overly complicated for what I'm trying to achieve. Or I create an account at AJ Bell for one of the children in my name and find 2 other companies to set up trading accounts for the other children in my name. Or I create a SIPP for the children. So the question is, where / how can I set up a trading account for children, so they can get experience of investing and making their own investment decisions. Love the podcast, keep up the good work Thanks, Stuart 10:00 Question 2 Hello Pete and Roger, Really enjoying the podcast. The Q&A shows have been fantastic for hearing about other people’s financial conundrums and thinking about how to apply those lessons in my own situation. I have some questions about children’s savings that I hope will help others too. For context, my wife and I have a 12 year old daughter and 8 year old son. My son has a severe learning disability meaning he is unlikely to ever be able to manage his finances independently. I get a good salary from full time employment and pay additional rate tax, while my wife stopped working several years ago to care full time for our son. Question 1: Can you please interpret the rule: "if, in the tax year, the child gets more than £100 in interest from money given by a parent. The parent will have to pay tax on all the interest if it’s above their own Personal Savings Allowance? Both children get £60 a month paid into children’s cash savings accounts since they were babies - half from us and half from grandparents. Last year, my daughter got £300 of interest. My hope/assumption is that the rule applies per parent. Otherwise, given my personal savings allowance is £0 I would potentially owe £135 of tax on my daughter’s earnings having only contributed a quarter of the funds over 12 years. We’ve now moved the bulk of her savings into a stocks and shares JISA to avoid any tax hassle, but this wouldn’t be suitable for my son who will be unable to manage the account when he turns 18. Does it make a difference if the payments come from my wife’s solo bank account vs our joint account? Question 2: Related to the above, where do you start with financial planning for a child with learning disabilities? What are the big things we should consider? Will savings in my son’s name affect his entitlement to the benefits and care he will need as an adult? Any advice on finding and vetting a good financial advisor with expertise in this area, as I appreciate specific personal circumstances will have a big effect here? Thanks, David, in Leeds 19:52 Question 3 Hi Pete and Roger Thanks for all the content over the years, so glad I found your podcast in my late twenties so hopefully I can look back in years to come and thank you for helping set me on the right track financially. My question is a little general in the sense that I don’t know what I don’t know, but I’m wondering what things I may...
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