Saving and Investing
Saving and investing can begin in many ways. Depending on the amount you want to save or invest, EB Wealth have created a range of solutions to help you achieve your goals. We will be happy to discuss your situation, the various options available and find the most appropriate solution for you - please feel free to contact us for more information. If you do not require advice or guidance and are looking for a low-cost solution to start investing into a non-work pension and / or consolidate existing pensions or savings, we can talk to you about our non-advised services. These services start from £250.
GIAs
General Investment Accounts (GIAs) are saving accounts where your money can be invested into the markets but any gains are subject to Capital Gains Tax. You can invest as much as you want and withdraw whenever you want. They offer flexibility for people who want to invest and get a better possible Return on Investment than a bank.
ISAs
Stocks & Shares Investment Savings Accounts (ISAs), Lifetime Savings Accounts (LISAs) or Junior Investment Accounts (JISAs) have annual contribution limits but any gains are not subject to any tax. They are a fantastic way to invest for the future in a tax-efficient manner and you are able to withdraw funds whenever you wish (rules apply to LISAs).
Trusts
Trusts enable you to gift assets in a tax-efficient way to those of your choosing when you pass away. Until that time, you can continue to benefit from your assets and enjoy regular payments from the trust for life. If you live for at least seven years after the trust was created, it will not be considered as part of your estate when you pass away.
Pensions
Pensions are a great way to save for your retirement as you usually get tax relief on the money you pay in. Your savings are typically invested into the markets. Whilst your money is invested, there is no tax to pay, although there may be tax to pay when withdrawing your funds. You cannot withdraw funds from a pension until you are at least 55 years old.
Although we usually recommend starting your investing journey with “the basics” first, i.e., ISAs and Pensions, there are numerous other types of investment that may be appropriate for you including bonds, term products, national savings and many, many more.
Before we provide any advice, we will always discuss your situation in detail before recommending the most suitable course of action for you to take.
Why use EB Wealth?
We are passionate about providing a service that you can rely on, giving you sound advice on all aspects of your financial planning. We also work hard so you don’t have to to make your money grow with the aim of achieving your goals and fulfilling your dreams! We do extensive research on the funds we invest your money into and only use providers that score highly when carrying out market-wide due diligence.
Typically, when you save and invest with us, we will invest your money into our Centralised Investment Proposition. This consists of a series of model portfolios that we have created in-house. This can drastically reduce the costs you might incur compared to IFAs who outsource their investment research. We are also proud of the fact that we have fought hard to maintain our 0.5% per annum fee structure when so many others have increased their charges to 0.75% and beyond.
We run a number of centralised portfolios based on client needs, with the vast majority of our clients being invested in either our Moderate or Moderately Adventurous Growth portfolios. We use the IA Mixed investment 40-85% shares index to benchmark our Moderately Adventurous portfolios and have also shown the performance of our Moderate portfolios on the same graph - see below. We are also strong advocates of structured products and where appropriate, we often recommend these as additional investments sitting alongside our centralised portfolios. The bar chart below shows the average return achieved on our structured product recommendations on a discrete annualised basis.
Although we are proud of the performance of our model portfolio performance, you will see further down the page that, when coupled with structured products, our clients have so far benefitted from an excellent performance on their investments. However, past performance cannot be relied upon for future outcomes.
EBW Portfolios
Structured Products
Although structured products are not suitable for everyone, they are a powerful tool in building more stable overall portfolio performance. While they are fixed term products and cannot form part of our Centralised Investment Proposition (i.e., they are not included on the line graph above), many of our clients enjoy the benefits of having a proportion of their funds invested into structured products as per the graph below.
The graph below shows the aggregate return of our Moderate and Moderately adventurous portfolios assuming 25% invested in Structured Products.