Update: This deal is still available.
Open a
Fidelity Youth™ Account for your teen, and $50¹ will be deposited into their account. No account fees or minimums.
Account Benefits:- Open a Fidelity Youth™ Account once they download the Fidelity Youth app and activate their Youth Account.
- The app is free²—plus, no monthly fees or account minimums to open.³
- Teens get their own debit card with no domestic ATM fees.⁴
- Interactive lessons, video, articles, tools, and calculators help jumpstart your teen's financial education. Teens get reward dollars for every level they complete.
- Learning to invest is easy. Teens can invest in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs with as little as $1.⁵
- Parents can keep an eye on their teen's spending, set up alerts, and maintain visibility into account and trading activity.
- Teens are empowered to make, manage, and invest their own money so they feel more prepared for their financial future.
Slickdeals is not registered as an investment adviser under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, and nothing in these materials should be construed as advice concerning securities, the value of securities, the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities, or the merits of any investment adviser.
Disclosures:
The Fidelity Youth Account can only be opened by a parent/guardian. Account eligibility limited to teens aged 13-17.
¹Limited Time Offer. Terms Apply. Before opening a Fidelity Youth Account, you should carefully read the accent agreement and ensure that you fully understand your responsibilities to monitor and supervise your teen's activity in the account.
²The Fidelity Youth™ app is free to download. Fees associated with your account positions or transacting in your account apply.
³ Zero account minimums and zero account fees apply to retail brokerage accounts only. Expenses charged by investments (e.g., funds, managed accounts, and certain HSAs) and commissions, interest charges, or other expenses for transactions may still apply. See Fidelity.com/commissions for further details.
⁴Your Youth Account will automatically be reimbursed for all ATM fees charged by other institutions while using the Fidelity® Debit Card at any ATM displaying the Visa®, Plus®, or Star® logos. The reimbursement will be credited to the account the same day the ATM fee is debited. Please note, for foreign transactions, there may be a 1% fee included in the amount charged to your account. The Fidelity® Debit Card is issued by PNC Bank, N.A, and the debit card program is administered by BNY Mellon Investment Servicing Trust Company. These entities are not affiliated with each other, and Fidelity is not affiliated with PNC Bank or BNY Mellon. Visa is a registered trademark of Visa International Service Association, and is used by PNC Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc.
⁵Fractional shares quantities can be entered out to 3 decimal places (.001) as long as the value of the order is at least $0.01. Dollar-based trades can be entered out to 2 decimal places (e.g. $250.00)
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I don't have an account with them.
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Especially if the money won't be needed. Just a thought.
i bonds were 8.5% maybe 9.1% now it's the smart way to keep earning.. it's guaranteed. ask your financial planner about them. i think only 1 purchase per yr up to 10k per person. silly not to buy inflationary bonds at this day and age
Good luck!
Jon
FSKAX is also more established and has larger net assets (75 bil vs 12 bil).
If you are holding these funds inside an IRA, obviously taxes aren't an issue, plus you can convert FZROX to FSKAX pretty easily.
In all honesty, you will be fine with either.
This is good parenting and more people should do it. Further, that money should be *invested*, not just saved. A normal savings account is a money losing system. But getting your kid into the habit of saving and investing while they're going is a great way to kickstart them towards an early retirement or a much more comfortable standard retirement.
Investing is the way.
Yes, and no. I have done 529 since my kid was born and the investment choices and returns are crap. This gives you more investment options and much more flexibility of how to use the money. Everyone says 529 but what I have found it that 529 ain't what it's cracked up to be.
Anyone?
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If your parents taught you how to invest you'd see that it doesn't have to be risky.
If you invest $1000 into a broad index fund at age 18 and reinvest the dividends until retirement age you are much more likely to end up with $15,000 than $0 on that $1000 you invested.
Sure, you could be a bonehead and chase penny stocks or get into borrowing and leverage.. but that is basically gambling... So, don't do that. Instead use compounding returns from incredibly well run companies to grow your wealth. FZROX or FZKAX in an IRA for 20+ years isn't going to be gambling.
All of this is just my opinion. I am no advisor.
And, I think I'd buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway for kids.. they do share buybacks instead of paying dividends and they have been shown to manage their company well.
Also, having your children buy into established growth companies that don't pay much in dividends yet can let the investment grow without causing a tax burden for your kids until they sell the stocks.
I am no financial advisor, these are all my opinions only.
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If you want to get investing in the stock market and can't get a ROTH IRA because your kid doesn't have earned income yet, then I'd just buy FZROX and fractional shares of BERKSHIRE.A or BERKSHIRE.B in a standard Fidelity investment account because I don't want to receive dividends in anything but my ROTH IRA so I can avoid having those taxed as income.
Also, ALWAYS make sure you set up the beneficiaries for your retirement and investment accounts. This is easy and saves people a lot of trouble if anything did happen.
In summary, get government I bonds, buy FZROX and get a ROTH IRA as soon as kids are earning income to shield gains from taxation within the ROTH individual retirement account. All of this can be done of Fidelity very easily.