It's easy to transfer or start a new personal pension.
Choose your investment style and risk profile.
Take control of your retirement.
With investment, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on your individual circumstances and may change in the future.
Nutmeg has been awarded Boring Money Best Buy Pensions 2022
Your money and assets are held separately with Barclays and State Street
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It's a subject swimming in complex narrative and unwieldy jargon, but a personal pension is essentially a tax-efficient way of investing for retirement. And thanks to tax relief, a contribution of £100 into your pension effectively turns into £125 – or even more if you are a higher rate taxpayer.
A personal pension could greatly improve your quality of life after work. How much ultimately rests on how much you’re willing to pay in and how your investments perform.
Tax treatment depends on your individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future.
We don’t hide behind complex pricing structures or financial jargon. We keep it simple. Start a Nutmeg private pension online in minutes or transfer an old pension.
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Our in-house investment team has built a range of portfolios for all pension needs, suited to your chosen risk level and investment style. Our client services team can support you with any questions you might have.
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It’s easy to set up or consolidate your existing pensions with us. Start with as little as £500, and let us know the level of contribution and risk you’re comfortable with. We give you the flexibility to make changes to your risk level and investment style as your situation changes. And when you’re ready to use your retirement savings, we offer pension drawdown.
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You have access to your account at all times, so you can always see how your pension investment is performing. We'll also notify you six months and again six weeks prior to reaching your retirement date to let you know if you're on track. And at Nutmeg, we have no hidden costs or exit fees.
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 losses 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: 0.14%
+Average market spread: 0.05%
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. As with our Fully Managed style, these portfolios are proactively managed by our 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 the intervention of our investment team. Your portfolio will be automatically rebalanced to ensure your investments match your risk level, but the assets will only be reviewed once a year to make sure they're still right for you.
0.45% up to £100k, 0.25% beyond
+Average investment fund cost: 0.18%
+Average market spread: 0.08%
Input estimated investment
Below you can see a detailed breakdown of our performance over the past few years, as well as how our investments are allocated across countries and assets.
Explore our full 9-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 client 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. Pension rules apply.
Unsure what you need for your private pension? Our pension contribution calculator will do the maths for you. Follow a few simple steps and we’ll show you how much you could/should have in the future.
Annual Income Goal
£25,000
Pension Pot
£752,000
Today's Money
£458,000
Date
Aug 2047
Contributions
£990/mo
As with all investing, your capital is at risk. This calculator is not a reliable indicator of future performance and is intended as an aid to decision-making, not a guarantee.
Capital at risk. Pension rules apply
Tax treatment depends on your individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future.
Most people in the UK can get tax relief on pension contributions up to 100% of their earnings or up to the government-set annual allowance.*
The annual allowance is the amount of money you can contribute to your pensions without incurring any tax charges. For most people, the annual allowance is £40,000 for the 2022/23 tax year.
It may be lower if:
Tax relief comes in the form of government ‘top-ups’ of the contributions into your pension pot.
Everyone can get at least 20% tax relief, equivalent to the basic income tax rate, on contributions. Higher-rate and additional-rate taxpayers may be able to claim more.
If you’re not working or not earning enough to pay income tax, you’re still able to receive tax relief on up to £3,600 of pension contributions in a tax year.
By using pension carry forward, you can use any unused annual allowance from the previous three tax years to make pension contributions in the current tax year.
The lifetime allowance is a set limit on the amount that you can take from all of your pensions without having to pay any extra tax charges. The lifetime allowance is £1,073,10 for the 2022/23 tax year. Learn more about the Nutmeg pension.
*Tax treatment depends on your individual circumstances and may be subject to change in the future.
Provided you have the qualifying national insurance record, most people in the UK are able to claim a state pension.
If you’re employed, you’ve likely been auto-enrolled into your employer’s workplace pension scheme.
If you’re self-employed, or even if you already have a workplace pension, you can also have a personal pension.
A workplace pension can be set up as a defined benefit scheme or a defined contribution scheme, while a personal pension is usually operated as a defined contribution scheme.
You’ll need to work out which type of pension is right for you.
In most cases, once you turn 55 you have a number of options for what to do with the money in your workplace and personal pension pots. But you don’t have to start taking your benefits when you’re 55 — you could leave it until you’re older if you want. You could even start withdrawing from your pension and continue to work, if you wish to.
You can start claiming your state pension once you reach state pension age.
How and when you withdraw your pension will depend on your personal circumstances and your retirement goals, and whether it’s a defined contribution pension, a defined benefit pension, or a state pension. Learn more about your pension pot and retiring at 55.
Pensions and their rules can be confusing. It can also be tough to keep track of things if you have different pension pots with different providers.
Consolidating your pension pots into one easy-to-manage personal pension may be more convenient, allow you to keep better track of it, and should reduce your paperwork.
One combined pension could also potentially save you fees and charges, and help you assess whether you’re maximising the tax relief you’re entitled to. Learn more about how pensions work.
Pension drawdown is a way of using your pension to maintain a regular income in retirement by reinvesting your pot in funds specifically designed and managed for this purpose.
Flexible-access drawdown allows you to have control over your pension income and to make withdrawals as and when you need to. While it doesn’t offer the option of a guaranteed income, flexible-access drawdown can be used to provide a regular adjustable income. But remember, any income or further withdrawals over the original tax-free 25% are taxable at your rate of income tax. There may also be a number of associated fees and charges associated with drawdown that you need to be aware of.
Nutmeg offers drawdown in partnership with our pension administrator Hornbuckle. If you hold a pension with Nutmeg, you’ll receive an information pack, or ‘wake-up pack’, on reaching your 50th birthday containing details of your pension. You’ll also receive a wake-up pack on reaching your 55th birthday and every five years on from that point, until your pension fund is fully crystallised.
You can start drawing down from your pension from the age of 55. The first 25% is tax free and the remainder is subject to tax.
Nutmeg offers flexible drawdown, this means you’re in control as you can choose how much of your pension pot you take and when you’d like to withdraw from it.
For more information on withdrawing money from your pension, read our dedicated support page.
Our personal pension is easy to use and transparent. It is straightforward to start a Nutmeg pension or transfer an existing pension. Nutmeg charges no hidden fees, and it will always be clear how much we’re charging you for our services.
Our pension portfolios are expertly designed.
It’s accessible.
It’s seamless.
It’s personalised.
Across all fully managed, socially responsible and Smart Alpha portfolios in your Nutmeg account, including VAT where applicable, you pay a management fee of 0.75% on your first £100k and 0.35% for everything beyond. For any fixed allocation portfolios, you pay a management fee of 0.45% on your first £100k and 0.25% on anything beyond. Any underlying fund costs and the effect of market spread are kept as low as possible to help you potentially benefit from better net returns. Find out more about our fees.
Nutmeg invests and manages your personal pension. While we use a third party provider, Embark and Hornbuckle, to operate and administer the pension, you’ll only ever talk to us – we can help you with any questions and problems.
Your pension assets are held by State Street Corporation, one of the world's largest custodian banks, and Barclays Bank. This means that your money is always kept separate from Nutmeg’s assets. So, if Nutmeg is ever declared bankrupt, your pension pot will still be safe.
Nutmeg is a member of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and you may be protected up to the value of £85,000.
But remember, as with all investing the value of your pension investments can go down as well as up due to market performance, and falls aren’t covered by the FSCS. A pension may not be right for everyone and tax rules may change in the future. If you are unsure if a pension is right for you, please seek financial advice.