Cash accounts including interest

No, a minimum holding is not required.

We don’t charge a service fee for holding cash. However, we reserve the right to retain an amount of the interest received from the bank(s) we deposit the money with to cover the cost of providing the service.

Interest is not paid on cash that's unsettled from a sale. Reserved or ring-fenced cash still accrues interest.

Unfortunately, this is not possible.

Client cash in the Fidelity Pension is held by the trustee in deposit accounts that are separate from cash held in other product types, such as the ISA and Investment Account.

On average, client cash balances in the Fidelity Pension are higher and held for longer periods of time which allows us to deposit a slightly higher proportion of that cash in notice accounts that pay a higher rate of interest. We pass the benefit of this through to customers as a higher rate of interest on their cash balances.

Yes, but the interest is paid to Product Cash within the product wrapper.

For closed accounts, interest will not be paid for amounts less than £5. If the interest is more than £5 then this is paid to the customer's cash holding and held as a residual balance. This includes accounts of deceased clients.

We do not pay interest on cash for accounts not yet moved to our main administration system held within these product types, as the cash is held in a deposit account which currently does not pay interest.

Once the account moves to our main administration system, interest will be paid on cash held. Interest will be paid into the account generating the interest. The rate applied will be for Investment Accounts. Interest is paid gross where the holder is a charity, a pension trustee, or an offshore bond provider, and is otherwise paid net of the basic rate of income tax.

Fidelity has multiple levels of protection for your clients' money in the event that something goes wrong. Fidelity is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, which means we always hold a significant amount of liquid capital. And because we are an investment firm, not a bank, we are required to separate client money from our own. In the unlikely event that we become insolvent, your clients’ money would be ring-fenced from any corporate money, and any shortfall may be covered by the FSCS.

FSCS protection

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is an independent body set up by the Government under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and funded by the financial services industry. As the ‘fund of last resort’ for customers of failed authorised financial services firms, it can pay your client compensation if a firm becomes insolvent or is in default and cannot meet any valid claims against it.

The FSCS will provide compensation of up to £85k when a financial services company fails, and your clients have lost money as a result.

More information about the protection provided by FSCS

Please visit the FSCS website for more detailed information on how the Scheme operates.

Any cash held is spread across several banks for your clients' security. The latest figures showing how the money is allocated between the banks we use are given below. Please note that this allocation is regularly reviewed.

ISA, Investment Accounts and Cash Management Accounts

* Effective from October 2024

Our Pension

* Effective from October 2024

This split is reviewed and adjusted over time depending on market activity.

FSCS protection is per eligible claimant per failed institution. Whilst Fidelity would suspend trading in any collapsed funds, for more information on FSCS protection at a fund level please contact the FSCS directly.

In the event that a bank fails, your monetary holdings with Fidelity will be reduced in proportion to the client money held by Fidelity with that bank.

When your clients invest through a distributor like Fidelity, any cash held on their behalf is placed with a range of different banks in designated client bank accounts. As the cash is kept completely separate from Fidelity’s own money, in the unlikely event that we became insolvent it would be returned to your client in an orderly manner.

When you invest in funds, they are held by Fidelity using a nominee structure. This allows us to administer your investments efficiently, while ensuring that your clients are clearly identified as their owner. This means that in the unlikely event of Fidelity becoming insolvent, any money we owe will not be paid out with your clients’ funds.

You can add a lump sum payment to a client’s Cash Management Account (CMA) on their behalf. Payments can be made by debit card, cheque or bank transfer. Money can also be added to a specified account (Product Cash) as part of a lump sum investment, funded either by a bank transfer or cheque (and by debit card for ISAs and Investments Accounts). Clients can also add cash to their CMA, or to Product Cash within any of their accounts, through our enhanced end investor website.

When paying money into Product Cash, advisers should simply select the relevant ISA, Pension or Investment Account and then select cash from the investment table.

Yes, as well as cheque and debit card, you can now select ‘Bank transfer’ so that your clients can move money from their bank accounts directly to their Cash Management Account. Below we demonstrate this easy four-step process.

Step 1

Select ‘Bank Transfer’ from the ‘Source of Lump Sum’ drop down, once you have entered the lump sum amount.
 

Step 2

Select ‘Add payer details’ on the ‘Submit a Quote’ page.
 

Step 3

Choose the ‘Select funding source’ and the relevant source.

Step 4

The following screen provides our bank details and references for your client to use when sending us the lump sum amount. You can download these details to send on to your client.

ISA and Investment Accounts

Income can be paid to a client’s bank account or be reinvested back into the investment. All income payments out to a client bank account will be consolidated into a single payment per period. We offer a range of frequency and date options.

Income can also be paid to cash within the account (Product Cash) or into the Cash Management Account. Advisers may wish to do this, for example, to cover future fee payments or fund future investments.

Pension Savings Accounts & Pension Drawdown Accounts

Income can be managed under the ‘Manage income treatment’ section and can either be reinvested or paid to Cash within the account (Product Cash).

ISA and Investment Accounts

Money realised through a redemption can be paid to a client’s bank account, Cash Management Account or Product Cash (cash within the account). 

The money can also be paid to cash within the account (Product Cash) or transferred into the Cash Management Account. Advisers may wish to do this, for example, to cover future fee payments or fund future investments. 

Pension Savings Accounts & Pension Drawdown Accounts

Information on making withdrawals from our Pension.

For ISAs and Investment Accounts, the default is for the fee to come from Product Cash but you are able to specify that the adviser ongoing fee (AOF) and the DFM ongoing fee (if applicable) should be taken from the client’s Cash Management Account (CMA). If a client holds both an ISA and Investment Account, then it is possible for the ISA AOF to be paid from the Investment Account via the ‘Manage fees funding’ page. Here, you can set fees to come from the CMA and then set the Investment Account as the shortfall account should there be insufficient cash available in the CMA at the time the fee is due.

Within all accounts (ISA, Investment Accounts and Pension), you can nominate a fund from where the fee should come from. The system will look at Product Cash first to take the fee. If there is insufficient money in the Product Cash account, it will take the fee from the nominated fund. If no nomination is made, the system will default to the largest mutual fund followed by the largest Exchange Traded Product (ETP).

Our Service Fee, charged at 0.25% on the value of a client’s investments, is taken from the cash within each account (Product Cash) by default. Any shortfall can be made up by redeeming units from either a nominated fund or the largest fund held within the client’s account. For ISA and Investment Accounts, you can ask us to pay the fee from the client’s Cash Management Account. 

Our Investor Fee, charged at £45 per annum and collected monthly in instalments, will normally be taken from the Cash Management Account (CMA). If there is not enough cash in the Cash Management Account to pay a fee, then you can choose which account we should seek to take the fees from.