Our general investment account is an easy, flexible way of investing more of your money in the markets on top of your £20,000 ISA allowance. We’ll do the hard work, choosing and building your portfolio, and in a way that works for you.
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A general investment account is a simple way of investing more money once you've reached your annual ISA allowance. Unlike an ISA or pension, there are no tax benefits, although you can contribute as much as you wish. Like our ISAs, our experts will create a globally diversified portfolio in a way that works for you.
Everything’s online, so you can sign up to a Nutmeg general investment account in minutes and manage your money wherever, whenever. Flexible, transparent and designed by experts.
We don’t chase hot stocks or market fads. Instead, we choose exchange traded funds suited for the long term. Our in-house investment team have built a range of portfolios for our general investment account, which are then allocated as per your chosen investment style.
It’s easy to open a general investment account with us. Simply log in from any device, starting with as little as £500, and make changes to your risk profile and investment style whenever you choose. We’ll do the heavy lifting and leave you to focus on the important stuff.
Not only do you have 24/7 access to your account, we’ll let you know how your investments are performing and provide a detailed breakdown of your investment income. But that’s not all. We’ll make sure our customer support is on-hand to field any questions you have.
All four Nutmeg investment styles are built by experts and use exchange traded funds (more on ETFs here) to diversify across stocks, bonds, industries, even countries. Choose the one that works for you.
Proactively managed portfolio
These portfolios are proactively managed by our experienced investment team. This means they will regularly make strategic adjustments to try and protect against loses and boost returns.
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
+Average investment fund cost: 0.21%
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Powered by J.P. Morgan Asset Management
J.P. Morgan Asset Management adapts your portfolio during changing market conditions, while using their in-house research to select securities with the aim of delivering better returns.
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
+Average investment fund cost: 0.33%
+Average market spread: 0.08%
With a focus on the environment and society
Our socially responsible portfolios (SRI) are tilted towards companies and bond issuers that have high environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. Like Fully Managed, these portfolios are proactively managed by our experienced investment team.
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
+Average investment fund cost: 0.33%
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Assets without intervention at a low cost
These portfolios are designed to perform without intervention. By that, we mean we'll keep you invested in assets that match your risk level, and only review those assets once a year to make sure they're still right for you. Beyond that, we'll keep our hands off.
0.45% up to £100k, 0.25% beyond
+Average investment fund cost: 0.18%
+Average market spread: 0.08%
As with any investments, there are underlying costs. Rather than burying our fees in the small print, we want to be clear and upfront about exactly what we charge.
Fully Managed
per week
Nutmeg fees
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
Fund costs
+Average investment fund cost: 0.21%
Market spread
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Smart Alpha
per week
Nutmeg fees
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
Fund costs
+Average investment fund cost: 0.33%
Market spread
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Socially Responsible
per week
Nutmeg fees
0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% beyond
Fund costs
+Average investment fund cost: 0.33%
Market spread
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Fixed Allocation
per week
Nutmeg fees
0.45% up to £100k, 0.25% beyond
Fund costs
+Average investment fund cost: 0.18%
Market spread
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Below you can see a detailed breakdown of our performance over the past few years. And because we value transparency, we've also detailed how our investments are allocated across countries and assets.
Explore our full 7-year track record for each of our 10 risk-based fully managed portfolios and see how our results compare against our competitors.
This past performance is simulated but based on real market transactions, with all customer portfolios represented as a single portfolio for each risk level. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
*The annualised figure is the return since inception expressed as a compound annual rate. For example, a portfolio with an annualised return of 6% corresponds to an actual return of 19.1% over three years (rather than 18% as you might expect) due to the effect of compounding.
Capital at risk
A general investment account is a simple way to invest more money once you've used up all of your ISA limit for the tax year.
Unlike an ISA or pension, there are no tax benefits or contribution limit when investing in a general investment account. But like our ISAs, our experts will create a globally diversified portfolio in a way that works for you.
The Nutmeg general investment account is flexible and easy to use. Our investment experts will put your money to work for you, so you don’t have to spend valuable time managing it yourself.
You can. The only requirements are that you have to be over 18, a UK or EEA resident and have a UK bank account.
We charge an annual management fee calculated on the total value of your portfolio.
Our fee starts at 0.75%/yr and goes as low as 0.25%/yr, including VAT, depending on the amount you invest, and the investment style you choose: fully-managed, socially responsible or fixed allocation.
When we buy the ETFs for you, the providers of these investments charge an underlying fund cost that you'd encounter when buying the investments with any provider. We work hard to keep these fund costs as low as we can in our portfolios so you can benefit from the best possible net returns...
In a complex investment universe, we keep things simple by mostly using low-cost, high-quality exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to maximise your chances of better long-term returns.
When you invest with Nutmeg, we construct your portfolio for you, principally using a mix of exchange traded funds — ETFs. These provide an easy way to gain exposure to a pool of investments without having to buy each one individually. They can track a share index, such as the FTSE 100, and they can give you exposure to assets like government and corporate bonds. They can also invest in specific sectors such as precious metals or forestry which can be difficult for individual investors to access.
Yes. You can start a stocks and shares ISA with Nutmeg or transfer existing cash or stocks and shares ISAs to Nutmeg.
There are two main sorts of ISA — a Cash ISA and a Stocks and Shares ISA. Nutmeg offers only Stocks and Shares ISAs. An individual can only contribute money to one Stocks and Shares ISA and one Cash ISA in each tax year.
Yes, we do.
You can start a Nutmeg personal pension with just £500 and transfer in your personal pensions from other providers so you can have all your investments in one easy-to-use online account. Log in whenever you want to see where your pension pot is invested and how it’s performing...
Our team of specialists can help answer any questions you may have.