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CliffyAtoday at 1:53 AM1 replyview on HN

As the OP has "Aussie" in their name I think they'd be referring to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Dollarmites accounts. They were shutdown recently after a watchdog investigation. It was locking kids into using the bank that would continue into adulthood and schools were getting paid to sign kids up.

https://www.morningstar.com.au/personal-finance/the-lessons-...

"They found that it provided little value for children and the largest outcome was that children were being exposed to ‘sophisticated’ marketing tactics."


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AussieWog93today at 1:56 AM

Funnily enough the two people we heard that "advice" from were Brits and Saffas. It's just bad interest yields compounding over decades.