Interactive Investor SIPP Review: Flat fees keep costs down for large pensions
Product Name: Interactive Investor SIPP
Product Description: Interactive Investor offers the most investment options in the UK SIPP markets. With II you can invest more than 40,000 domestic and international shares, ETFs, bonds and over 3,000 funds (AJ Bell has 2,000 and HL offers 2,500 funds).
Is Interactive Investors' SIPP (pension) any good?
Yes, one advantage of Interactive Investor’s SIPP is that it offers a flat-fee structure. This means that annual account charges do not increase as your SIPP grows in size. This structure can help those with larger SIPP portfolios save on fees.
Interactive Investor is the best SIPP for buying funds because of the flat fee. Both Bestinvest and Hargreaves Lansdown do not charge for buying and selling funds, but fees are high at 0.4% on the first £250,000 in your SIPP portfolio. The only downside of Interactive Investor is that you pay £7.99 for each fund trade, but you can reduce this to £3.99 by upgrading to a Super Investor for £19.99 a month which still works out cheaper than paying 0.4% on your portfolio if you have around £250k in invested in funds.
If you do not want to invest in shares and only want to invest in funds, then the cheapest SIPP for for funds and ETFs, is Vanguard who is one of the cheapest fund SIPP providers. Its SIPP has a low account fee of just 0.15% per year, capped at £375, investors also have to pay fund management costs of around 0.20% per year on average. But, your choices are limited to Vanguard funds, which makes the account more of a personal private pension than a SIPP account with complete control and flexibility.
Interactive Investors’ SIPP Fees: Interactive Investor’s SIPP costs 12.99 a month for new customers, but if you already have a II shares dealing account you can add a SIPP for £10 per month instead of £12.99. Dealing commissions are a free trade every month, then UK Shares and Funds, US Shares charged £7.99 or upgrade to a £19.99 “Super Investor” account 2 free monthly trades and deal for £3.99. Regular investing is free.
ii SIPP special offer: You can claim up to £100 – £3,000 cashback when you transfer your SIPP to ii until 28th February 2025. The transfer offers is only open to new SIPP accounts (if you already have a SIPP with ii you cannot claim it) and there is a minimum deposit of £10k.
Pros
- Flat account fee of £12.99 per month
- £1 minimum deposit makes it easy to get started
- Fixed SIPP account fee that does not increase with your investments
Cons
- Fixed fee expensive for very small accounts below £1,000
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