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Keeping our charges simple and transparent

Our charges and pricing

At Wealthtime, we keep our charges simple, making it easier to understand the cost of your investments.

Here you’ll find details on our platform charges, your cash account fees and a helpful guide explaining how platform charges work for us and the wider platform market.

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Understanding platform charges

Before you learn more about our charges, you might want to read this guide. We’ve teamed up with the UK Platform Group to help customers understand platform charges and how they work. In this guide we explain the different types of charges, what they cover, and what they may be called across different platform providers.

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Charges schedule

Our charges schedule sets out the different types of charges that can apply when you invest with us. It includes details on our platform charges, interest on cash, as well as any other costs. Adviser charges are separate to our charges and are agreed between you and your adviser.

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Your cash account

Each of your accounts with us includes a cash facility. You’ll need to keep 2% of your total funds on our platform in cash, ready to be used for fees or withdrawals. We receive interest from our banking partners on the amount held in your cash account and we pass some of this on to you, by adding it to your cash account. 

Learn more about how we look after your money.

We’re authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As part of this, we must have certain safeguards in place. The money and assets belonging to investors is ring-fenced and kept separate from our company’s money. This means that in the unlikely event of our company failing, your money would be protected and safe from claims by creditors. 

Any uninvested cash is held in client money accounts with our banking partners. We carefully select which banks we work with – carrying out due diligence checks on elements including financial strength and reputation. We assess our relationships with these banks on an ongoing basis to ensure your money is appropriately protected. 

Spreading client money across several banks, rather than just using one, reduces exposure to any one institution. It also lessens the risk of cash being unavailable if any of the banks were to have technical problems. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) means that you may be entitled to compensation of up to £85,000 per banking license. Diversifying where we place client money means you may be covered for a larger amount than if we were to place all your money with one bank. However, this does depend on how much cash you hold, and how much is with each bank. Client money isn’t distributed equally across the banks and the amounts with each change regularly. And as the limit is per person, the £85,000 amount would include anything you held with the bank already. 

Learn more about the FSCS here: www.fscs.org.uk

 You need to hold 2% of the value of your invested funds in your Cash Account. We take charges from this amount. So, for example, if your portfolio on our platform is valued at £100,000, £2,000 will be held in your Cash Account.

 We’ll receive interest from our banking partners on the amount held in your Cash Account. We’ll pass some of this on to you, by adding it to your Cash Account.

 For example, if we receive 5% as interest on your Cash Account, we’ll retain 3% and add 2% to your Cash Account. So, if your Cash Account holds £2,000, over a year we’d receive £100, of which we retain £60 and add £40 into your Cash Account.

 As interest rates change, the amount of interest we receive and pass on to you may be different in the future.

 We use the interest we retain to invest in our platform to deliver good customer outcomes.

We will not take our Annual Platform Charge on the value of any cash held in your Cash Account.

We’ve changed how we deal with interest on client accounts. The interest rate applied to client cash deposits will now be updated monthly, rather than quarterly. This is to reflect changes more closely in the base rate and to be more in line with those rates currently available in the market.

The table below shows the amount of interest we’ve received, retained and added to Cash Accounts in percentage terms, over the previous year. It also shows how much this would have been in monetary terms, if you had held £2,000 in your Cash Account over the year. These rates are informed by the HSBC savings rate and as such can change without notice.

Period Interest we would have received Interest we would have retained Interest we would have added to Cash Accounts
01 July 24 – 30 Sep 24 5.17% (£103) 3.19% (£63) 1.98% (£40)
01 Oct 24 – 31 Dec 24 4.91% (£98) 2.93% (£59) 1.98% (£40)
01 Jan 25 – 31 Mar 25 4.55% (£91) 2.81% (£56) 1.74% (£35)
01 Apr 25 – 30 Jun 25 4.36% (£87) 2.87% (£57) 1.49% (£30)
01 Jul 25 – 30 Sep 25 4.17% (£83) 2.83% (£57) 1.34% (£27)
01 Oct 25 – 31 Oct 25 4.15% (£83) 2.86% (£57) 1.29% (£26)

 

Note: These figures have been rounded. 

Interest will be payable monthly in arrears and will be paid on the 15th of the month or the next available working day, for example, interest accrued in October 2025 will be paid on 15 November 2025. 

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