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September 7, 2008 is National Grandparents Day, commemorating the soft laps, smuggled treats and big warm hugs from the folks who know how to give them better than anyone else, our grandparents.
Nobody loves you quite like your grandparents do, but while the bottomless soft spot for the grandkids might not extend to their college [...]

Your friends and family are good people who want to see you and your children succeed in life and they want to help you. Your friends and family want to contribute into your child’s 529 college savings plan. My company, Freshman Fund, commissioned a nationwide study to test the idea of shifting gifts from plastic [...]

Death and taxes… There’s no such thing as a free lunch… Umm, the Postman always ring twice? Hm, well maybe not that last one, but my point is we all know the cliches about things that are hard to avoid or hard to get. Fortunately, if you’ve got a future college student in the house, [...]

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I walked by a colleague’s office the other day and noticed that her desk was strewn with info on 529 plans, college scholarships, FAFSA forms, and a 4″ thick book listing every college in the US.
“College planning time?” I ventured an out-there guess.
She nodded and went on to tell me about how overwhelmed [...]

I have long argued the benefits of saving for college using a 529. The list of 529 college savings plans is long.  529s are low maintenance, they are flexible, they allow for large investments, reporting them on your taxes is easy and most important of all the assets grow TAX FREE. In a world where [...]

The latest news on the college financing front reflects broader uncertainty in the U.S. economy today, and shows how problems in the credit markets are making it tougher for families to meet even high-priority expenses like college tuition.
First up, Wall Street. Bloomberg reported last week that Morgan Stanley froze the home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) [...]

The New York Times recently looked at how some of the nation’s wealthiest colleges are spending their endowments.
They cite Berea College, a Kentucky school that only accepts students from low-income families and provides a small, private-college education without the small, private-college cost. Students pay no tuition, earning their bachelor’s degree without incurring dollar one in [...]