baby bond


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baby bond

n.
A bond issued in an amount less than $1,000.
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baby bond

n
(Banking & Finance) Brit a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
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2001 The Government announced plans to give every baby PS500 in a baby bond. 2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000-troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination.
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There's a proposal to give every newborn in the United States a "Baby Bond" account with somewhere between $500 to $50,000 in cash.
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government should create, along with a Social Security number, a savings account for that child into which between $5,000 and $7,500 is placed--called a baby bond or, as some prefer to call it, a service bond.
Positive touch offered by the parents has been shown to be more beneficial for the well being of these fragile babies and importantly supports the development of a strong parent/ baby bond, which is the foundation of attachment parenting--the philosophy of the IAIM.
Welsh councils will have to top up 'baby bond' accounts for children in care, under a plan backed by AMs.
nYOUR choices include a savings account or a National Savings baby bond. A unit trust could be started in the children's names or you can take out a friendly society policy.
Tunbridge Wells Equitable's Baby Bond (0500 110011) is one of the most popular on the market.
(1) A bond received as payment of interest is known as a "baby bond" or a "pay-in-kind" (PIK) bond.
That is to say that the "devolution dividend" resulting from Welsh government policies means that families living in Wales enjoy benefits envied by their English counterparts: free prescriptions; cheaper council tax; free and healthy school breakfasts; a top-up to the UK baby bond; school uniform grants; free bus travel for pensioners and reduced travel costs for post-16 students; grants for HE students in Wales offsetting the top-up fees typically charged by English universities; grants for the over-80s to install central heating in their homes, free swimming for older people and, on weekends and holidays, for schoolchildren.