Investing for children with our unit trusts
Investing for children - The basics
It doesn't matter if you're a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or godparent - you can indulge in more than their imagination by investing for their future in a unit trust.
Anyone can invest for a child
- Choose from a wide range of unit trusts to find the best fit for you and your child
- You'll be putting your money with one of the UK's leading financial services companies
- Apply online today
What is a unit trust?
It's a way for you to invest in assets like shares, stocks, property or cash. But instead of investing by yourself, a unit trust pools your money with money from other investors, which can give you more opportunities to grow your money and can help reduce risk.
In fact, over the medium to long term the returns on investments in stocks and shares have generally outperformed the returns you would expect to get from a bank or building society account.
You can invest a minimum lump sum of £500 or make a regular contribution of at least £50 each month. There's no upper limit to how much you can invest.
You should always think of unit trusts as medium to long-term investments of at least five years.
However, unlike a bank or building society account, any money invested in a unit trust is not guaranteed, and the value can fall as well as rise. You may not get back the money that you invested. Historical performance is not a guide to future returns, or to our future performance in relation to other funds.
Your unit trust options
An actively managed fund that places your investment with our team of fund managers who are always on the look out for outstanding opportunities for growth.
Our UK 100 Index Trust aims to offer growth for your investments by tracking the performance of the FTSE 100 Index.
