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Hargreaves Lansdown is a leading “investment supermarket” for private investors. It is trusted with £96 billion worth of investment by 1.3 million clients.
The Fund & Share Account is a low cost, flexible investment account that allows you to deal, manage and hold a wide range of investments. It is aimed at those who are comfortable making their own investment decisions, without financial advice. There’s also a self invested personal pension (SIPP), junior SIPP and several different ISAs available.
Read on to find out more about Hargreaves Lansdown, and whether it might be the right investment solution for you.
To start investing with Hargreaves Lansdown, you’ll need to open an account.
The right account for you will depend on your goals. You might be saving for the future, for a pension pot or for your child.
Hargreaves Lansdown can help you narrow things down and find the right account, allowing you to compare accounts and tick things which apply to you.
To open an account with Hargreaves Lansdown, you’ll need:
Hargreaves Lansdown offers seven products:
As with all ISAs, you get an annual allowance. This is the amount of money you can invest in the tax-year, of which all of your profits are tax-free. Once you’ve used up your ISA allowance for the year, you can continue investing with a general investment account. Different types of ISA have different allowances, which we detail below.
Your annual allowance for a stocks and shares ISA is £20,000 in both the 2019/2020 tax year and the 2020/2021 tax year.
With Hargreaves Lansdown’s stocks and shares ISA you can choose to either create a DIY portfolio or use a ready-made portfolio based on your goals and attitude to risk.
Benefits of a DIY portfolio include:
Benefits of ready-made portfolios include:
Lifetime ISAs are for investing for your first home or for your retirement. You can choose between a stocks and shares LISA or a cash ISA.
Your annual allowance for a LISA is £4,000 in each tax year. The government will add an additional 25%. This allowance is included in the £20,000 stocks and shares ISA allowance, so if you invest £4,000 in a LISA, you only have £16,000 remaining for the year.
The allowance for the 2020/2021 tax year is £9,000. This means that you can save up to this much in your child’s junior ISA without paying any tax on the earnings.
The junior ISA is for children under 18 years old. It’s managed by a legal parent or guardian, until the child turns 18, when it is automatically transferred to them. Benefits of the JISA include:
Self invested personal pensions are suitable for people who want to make their own investment decisions – this means it’s in your hands – there’s no hand-holding. If you don’t know what to invest in, or whether an investment is right for you, Hargreaves Lansdown does have advisers that can help you, although this is at an additional charge.
You’ll get the same tax relief with a SIPP as you do with other pensions. You can add up to £40,000 to your pension (if you’re a UK resident under 75).
For the ultra-orgnanised parent or guardian, you have the option to open a junior SIPP for your child. This works pretty much like the Junior ISA and the SIPP combined – there’s a £3,600 allowance per child per tax year, of which the government will pay 20% tax relief. The “child” (they won’t be a child by the time) can only access the money when they turn 55 (57 from 2028).
If you’re looking for a way to invest in your child’s long term future, this could be suitable. If you’d prefer them to have access to the funds when they’re 18, consider the Junior ISA instead.
For those who are about to retire, Hargreaves Lansdown offers:
Hargreaves Lansdown’s fund and share account lets you buy and sell shares, investment trusts, exchange-traded funds and bonds. You build your portfolio yourself.
Benefits to a Fund and Share account include:
Hargreaves Lansdown offers a service called “Active Savings” which gives you returns on cash savings. Instead of having to shop around for savings accounts and move your savings yourself, Hargreaves Lansdown allows you to swap to a new savings account with a better rate without all the hassle. This is a nice service and allows you to make the most out of the offers on the market.
Yes. And it’s pretty good, too! It uses Face ID and fingerprint technology to keep it secure. Some things you can do with the Hargreaves Lansdown app include:
The Hargreaves Lansdown app is available on iOS and Android.
When it comes to security, Hargreaves Lansdown is trusted by thousands of customers and is considered to be a secure FTSE 100 company that has been managing investments for 35 years.
Your investments are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which means that you’ll be able to claim up to £85,000 if Hargreaves Lansdown was to go bust.
You need to work out what it is you want from your investment. Are you looking to put a bit of money away each month? Do you want returns on your investment?
You need to work out what you need before comparing the different offers available. Once you’ve done that, useful guidelines to compare include:
Hargreaves Lansdown’s customers are really impressed with its service. They feel that the customer service staff are friendly, efficient and that they go out of their way to explain things. Customers felt that the platform is straightforward and really easy to use.
A couple of customers mentioned high prices but they felt that the standard of service made up for it.
Hargreaves Lansdown has everything you could ask for in an investment platform. It was built with both experienced investors and beginners in mind, with plenty of educational tools and some options for those who want a bit of hand-holding along the way.
There isn’t a demo account available, though. You’d need to use a different platform if you want to try out share trading with virtual funds.
All investing should be regarded as longer term. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. If you’re not sure which investments are right for you, please seek out a financial adviser. Capital at risk.
Our customer satisfaction scores ("Customers say") are based on a survey of 752 customers carried out in December 2020.
All investing should be regarded as longer term. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. If you’re not sure which investments are right for you, please seek out a financial adviser. Capital at risk.
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