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HL ISA - minimising cost in moving from funds to IT

I set up an S&S ISA with HL couple of years ago and started investing in funds. I have reached the 10k limit where the cost of funds (0.45%) will be higher than investment trusts. I'd like to move to investment trusts such as Scottish mortgage. How do I minimise the dealing charges as I invest monthly (not regular amounts) and would like to invest in 3 or 4 ITs. Should I invest monthly in funds and transfer them over to ITs at the end of the year to keep dealing costs to a minimum?

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  • Albermarle
    Albermarle Posts: 31,401 Forumite
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    edited 24 September 2020 at 6:26PM
    You should not let relatively small platform charges dictate your choice of investments. If you wanted to invest in Scottish Mortgage you should have done so in the beginning .
  • ColdIron
    ColdIron Posts: 10,332 Forumite
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    You can change the amounts and investments using the monthly savings option, it doesn't need to be the same every month. You can keep costs down by minimizing the number of trades, e.g. don't invest in all 4 every month, stagger them. You can't use monthly savings for money already in the ISA so best to make single purchases
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