Share dealing service
Available ETIs
Our range of ETIs includes:
- Investment trusts
- Exchange trades Products including exchange traded funds and company shares.
- Shares from the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 FTSE All-Share index and FTSE AIM 100 with some shares from the ISEQ20.
You can search for the available options using our Investment Finder tool.
ETI dealing charges
Dealing charges may apply to trades in exchange traded investments (ETIs) as follows:
- There is no charge for buy, sell or switch deals placed online.
- There is no charge for regular transactions carried out automatically such as for regular savings, regular withdrawals and tax relief investment.
- The charges will differ should your client log in using our end investor website and use our share dealing service. This is because the client share dealing service offers live dealing into the market and does not benefit from the cost savings associated with aggregated dealing. The cost of buying and selling online will be £10 for each deal (switching is not available). Clients can also place orders by phone at a cost of £30 for each transaction.
These charges have replaced the previous fee of 0.1% for transactions in Investment Trusts and ETPs.
Stamp duty of 0.5% may also apply.
Please note Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) applies to purchases of some European exchange-traded instruments, including some domiciled in Europe and traded on the other exchanges, such as the London Stock Exchange (LSE). It is charged as a percentage of the transaction value and may vary between countries (e.g., Spanish FTT is charged at 0.2%).
Frequently asked questions
Deals placed by advisory firms will be ‘aggregated’. This means we will combine each of your trades with similar orders and place a single trade at certain times of the day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, when we will trade at the best price available on the market. This service, available only to advisory firms, allows us to keep dealing costs down and offer more favourable pricing.
Should your client log in using our end investor website they can also use our share dealing service. We allow clients to place market orders (at the current market price) and limit orders at a pre-set price. Like most online share services, we will display prices with a 15-minute delay until the client decides to place a market order, at which point the price they see will be ‘live’ and the client will have 15 seconds to accept it. This 'live-dealing' service allows the client to see and accept the price they will get for their order. The pricing for this service is higher as each trade is placed into the live market individually and so does not benefit from being aggregated.
Exchange traded investments are treated differently for accounts on our old administration system.
The offering includes a restricted number of ETPs and Investment Trusts which are dealt as partial shares. Charges associated with buying and selling these investments are set at 0.1% of the trade value for all transactions.
For pension accounts for clients under 18, regular contributions into exchange-traded investments are not available. The following services are also not available for pension accounts held by clients in this age group:
- bank transfers
- model portfolios
- re-registrations
- employer contributions