Practical Perspectives: Key financial issue for you and your family – Comparing Coverdell ESAS with 529 plans

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Abstract: In this month’s Practical Perspectives, we meet Floyd, an investment analyst, and Marietta, an educational researcher — a married couple with a five-year-old son and a newborn daughter. Like many parents, they’d heard and read plenty about 529 plans, but they wanted to know whether there were any other college funding alternatives worth considering. They visited their financial advisor, who explained one potential option: the Coverdell Education Savings Account.