ISA

UK ISA – Is it a good idea?

Below we summarise the government’s new UK ISA proposal and ask for members’ input. Your views and responses will inform our response to the consultation. The consultation can be read here (17pages). Key points: The government is looking to introduce the UK ISA. This will involve a new (additional) Individual Savings Account (ISA) allowance of £5,000 per year and will provide a tax-free savings opportunity for individuals to invest in the UK. The ISA is a tax advantaged savings account, where income ...

ShareCentre Flexi ISA query

A ShareSoc member has sent in this question. Can anyone help?  I currently hold an ISA with the Share Centre which is being taken over by Interactive Investor and I was interested to read Roger Lawson's article "Share Centre: The Future" in Issue 113.    In the past I had made use of the Share Centre's Flexi ISA and had assumed that the same facility would apply once my account was transferred over to Interactive Investor, but having checked with the Share Centre this ...

Delays in SIPP and ISA transfers

I commented on the delays in transferring a SIPP from Hargreaves Lansdown to another provider in the May ShareSoc Newsletter, and we published some letters from other members on similar problems in the June Newsletter. I thought readers might like to know that the original SIPP transfer has now finally completed. It actually took over 5 calendar months to get all the portfolio holdings to transfer (this being an "in-specie" transfer as it is called). This is clearly a quite ridiculous period ...