College savings plans

Affluent parents can creatively help their children while still holding them responsible for educational expenses.

A bill to end private lenders' role in government guaranteed student lending — assumed to be on its way to quick enactment — has suddenly become a hotly contested debate.

The company launched an FDIC-insured, high-yield online savings accounts and certificates of deposit.

529 college savings plans have attracted $100 billion in 11 million accounts, roughly a quarter of the money parents in the U.S. have set aside for their child’s education. But that’s far short of the hundreds of billions of dollars asset management firms expected them to attract.