Help your children learn to manage their money

Equipping kids with the knowledge and skills to handle their personal finances might seem like a daunting task, but there are plenty of tools available to make it easy and fun

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More than a decade ago, in a television advertisement for the Financial Regulator, a young man stood up in a bus and sheepishly declared that he didn’t know what a tracker mortgage was.

That line has been frequently revisited over the past few years as it emerged that the banks had failed to play by the rules on tracker mortgages, leaving thousands of mortgage customers out of pocket.

Turns out the young man ...