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Hi, looking at opening a S&S ISA. I have circa £5k and £400/month to invest. My risk appetite is medium and it would be a minimum of 10 years before I would be looking to release any funds. Don't really want any involvement in choosing the portfolio or the day to day/week to week touchpoints of investing. After a couple of previous posts, and some digging around, I am looking at the Vanguard Life Strategy option. I don't have any involvement in that other than choosing one of the products from VLS 20 to VLS 100 depending on my risk appetite. I am thinking VLS 60. I pay them my money and they pretty much do the rest. So after more or less settling on this option I have now come across similar products from both Moneybox and Wealthify. Same sort of process in that I simply choose a product based upon risk and they do the rest. Just wondering what your thoughts are on it. Also, given the sort of product I am looking to buy into would you consider anything else on the market to be better?

Thanks in advance.

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  • eskbanker
    eskbanker Posts: 37,179 Forumite
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    Costs aren't the be all and end all, but look carefully at the total charges involved in holding VLS60 on Vanguard's platform versus something equivalent on the other two....
  • Eyeful
    Eyeful Posts: 951 Forumite
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    edited 19 March 2021 at 2:37PM
    A cheap Global Multi Asset Fund seems to suit your what you describe.
    Using  Vanguard 's own platform is a reasonable choice if you intend to own VLS.

    https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investing-explained/what-are-lifestrategy-funds?intcmpgn=lifestrategyfunds_learnmore_link

    With this you chose the share/bond split. They then will re-balance to maintain it at that split. You have to accept the market risk that goes with the split.

                                                                             Alternatively

    https://www.hsbc.co.uk/investments/isas/hsbc-global-strategy-portfolios/

    With this you chose the risk level (e.g. balanced) you are comfortable with. They then re-balance the funds assets to maintain it at that risk level. This is called a “Risk Targeted Fund”


                                                               Some other Global Multi-Asset Funds  

    L&G Multi Index Funds

    Blackrock Consensus

     Fidelity Multi Asset Allocator

    Architas Passive


  • Albermarle
    Albermarle Posts: 27,875 Forumite
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    Moneybox and Wealthify are really internet start ups that offer only offer a very limited selection of investments , especially the former I think. Very simple to use though .
    Vanguard offer a number of types of investments , not just the Life Strategy funds , and they are one of the largest investment companies in the world .
    As mentioned there are various similar funds , but not identical .
    https://monevator.com/passive-fund-of-funds-the-rivals/
  • Cheers all, really appreciated.
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