Advice reqd to move iii S&S ISA to another provider

Financial_Saddler

andeebee wrote: »

I started in 2010 and this guide (also 2010) shows the ISAable stocks available in AIM
thesharehub.com/?p=200

That list is not an AIM list at all - it includes some massive FTSE100 companies!
A sole listing on AIM at that time would not have been ISA eligible.

andeebee

OK FS:T, it contains AIM as well as the larger companies and those were selectable through my iii ISA account at the time.
Not sure what your point is?

cloud_dog

Financial_Saddler wrote: »

That list is not an AIM list at all - it includes some massive FTSE100 companies!
A sole listing on AIM at that time would not have been ISA eligible.

HI FS

I'm not really sure this bit of the discussion is really pertinent. I've had numerous AIM stocks in my ISA for many year, long before 2010 because they also had a listing on a 'Recognised Exchange'.

The long and short is the OP has a small 'balance' in an ISA incurring AMC charges that they wish to mitigate by moving elsewhere. Where is really dependent on their investing circumstances going forward not what happened in the past.

Financial_Saddler

cloud_dog wrote: »

HI FS

I'm not really sure this bit of the discussion is really pertinent. I've had numerous AIM stocks in my ISA for many year, long before 2010 because they also had a listing on a 'Recognised Exchange'.

The long and short is the OP has a small 'balance' in an ISA incurring AMC charges that they wish to mitigate by moving elsewhere. Where is really dependent on their investing circumstances going forward not what happened in the past.

I probably recognised the sort of thing I did in my early years in this game - hanging onto dud investments in the hope that they would eventually come good. 99% of the time they don't.
If the OP is not going to trade shares that may have led to the sorry state of his ISA in the first place ( I assume ), then a lower annual admin fee is not likely to do him much good in the future, to be blunt.
I still bloody-mindedly have a technology fund I bought in 2000 sitting in an ISA, which is only worth 60% of the initial investment. It is the investment itself which has stunk the place out, not the admin fee.
My iSA provider is Barclays - £30 pa + VAT for shares. A very slick platform with a good value dividend reinvestment option ( which is very important to me now that I have weaned myself off the ramped tiddlers of my youth ).