WHEN BIG IS BETTER Should you invest with the small platforms ?
ISSUE 73
Issue 73 / May 2021
THE WAY OF THE DODO Once solid businesses that are now extinct
CREDITS
How I ’ m investing my daughter ’ s JISA
WASTED ON THE YOUNG ? What teenagers would do with a lump sum
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Editor ’ s letter
If like me you found the television series “ The Inbetweeners ” a little too accurate for comfort , you may shudder to think what you would have done if you were handed a life-changing amount of money on your 18th birthday . Fortunately ,
Contents
teenagers today appear to be better prepared to receive a windfall from a Child Trust Fund ( CTF ) or Junior ISA ( JISA ), as Maggie Williams finds out in this month ’ s issue . Remaining on the subject of investing for children , Danielle Levy reveals what
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Baby steps
Danielle Levy finds investing her daughter ’ s Junior ISA is more daunting than investing for herself
P . 4-13
Take-off platforms
Iain McCombie , joint manager of the Baillie Gifford UK Growth Fund , explains how online trading platforms brought financial power to the people
P . 14-17
The way of the dodo
Anthony Luzio looks at three once-solid businesses that have been wiped out in less time than it took for a Child Trust Fund to mature
P . 18-25