<prompt> Human: My brother is having his first child and Ill be an uncle. My present will be a piggy bank weither 2k cash, 2k for 529 college fund, or 2k in 2 or 3 different stocks. Which do you all recommend? I know that cash can come and go so I want to stray away from that as much ass possible, 529 is great but it wont grow and for 18 years it may not be worth it, and stocks is great as well since in 18 years this money will at least quadruple in my view unless the stocks die out GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, etc type of stocks.  <response>: 529 is great but it wont growWhat makes you think that? Investing and growing the money is whole point of a 529. 