Our platform
A range of tax-efficient wrappers
Your clients can benefit from a spectrum of tax wrappers and investment accounts as part of one portfolio. All are integrated on our platform, so can be viewed in one place.
Our self-invested personal pension, with accumulation and drawdown options, allows you to create retirement planning propositions to suit your clients' needs.
We offer flexi-access drawdown and you can easily convert clients who are already in capped drawdown to flexi-access at the click of a button. You can also use our pension-specific tools on the platform.
- Pension contributions can be made flexibly as single or regular payments.
- Regular payments can be increased, reduced, started or stopped at any time.
- Re-registrations and transfers from existing plans are accepted without charge and can be processed electronically, through Origo services.
- Basic rate tax relief is pre-funded on all pension contributions.
- There are over 6,500 assets to choose from for pension investment.
- You have access to model portfolio functionality, including IMX, our managed portfolio service.
- Our drawdown services are charge-free.
- Clients can take drawdown income monthly, quarterly, six monthly, annually, or as a one-off lump sum.
Find out more about the Nucleus Pension account from our key features document.
The Nucleus General account provides great flexibility and allows clients to hold unlimited contributions and a wide range of assets in one vehicle, and the investments within it grow without tax deducted at source.
- Payments can be made flexibly through single or regular contributions.
- Regular payments can be increased, reduced, started or stopped at any time.
- Re-registrations and transfers are accepted from existing plans without charge and can be processed electronically, through Origo services.
- There's no limit to how much may be invested or withdrawn.
- There are over 6,500 assets to choose from.
- You have access to model portfolio functionality, including IMX, our managed portfolio service.
- Withdrawals can be one-off, regular or taken as natural income.
- Investments held in this account are subject to capital gains - our fully integrated capital gains calculator can help you work this out.
Find out more about the Nucleus General account from our key features document.
The Nucleus Isa account is an online tax-efficient stocks and shares savings account.
- Payments can be made flexibly through single or regular contributions.
- Regular payments can be increased, reduced, started or stopped at any time.
- Re-registrations and transfers are accepted from existing plans without charge and can be processed electronically, through Origo services.
- There are over 6,500 assets to choose from.
- You have access to our platform model portfolio functionality, including IMX, our managed portfolio service
- Withdrawals can be one-off, regular or taken as natural income.
- You can set up a Bed and Isa so that money can be transferred easily from your client's general account.
- Our trade-on-trade capability allows you to process two Bed and Isas at the same time.
- Our Isa is flexible which means clients can withdraw and replace funds in the same tax year, without affecting subscriptions.
The Nucleus Jisa account is a stocks and shares Junior Isa, providing a tax-efficient investment solution for children under 18.
- Payments can be made flexibly through single or regular contributions.
- Regular payments can be increased, reduced, started or stopped at any time.
- We accept re-registrations and transfers from Child Trust Funds (CTFs), or from existing Jisas without charge.
- There over 6,500 investments to choose from.
- You have access to model portfolio functionality, including IMX, our managed portfolio service.
- The registered contact can ask the linked adviser to carry out Bed and Jisas from parents' accounts on the platform.
- There’s an unlimited number of direct debit payments allowed on different dates into the account (subject to subscription limits).
- You can easily see an overview of parents’ accounts and Jisa accounts in one place.
Find out more about the Jisa account from our key features document.
This is an investment-linked whole-of-life assurance policy, issued by CASLP Ltd ('CASLP') and fully integrated on our platform. Clients can take up to 5% income per annum, without having to pay any immediate income tax.
- The account is subject to an additional annual wrap charge of 0.10%.
- There’s no minimum initial investment amount.
- There are no restrictions on the amount or frequency of additional payments.
- There’s a choice of over 2,000 assets from around 150 fund managers.
- Our onshore bonds have access to our platform model portfolio functionality.
- The whole bond or a number of segments can be assigned.
- The onshore bond account can be used with a number of trusts from our trust suite or an existing trust deed.
- No liability to capital gains tax or income tax on bond gains.
Find out more about the Onshore Bond account from our key features document.
The Nucleus Offshore Bond is a tax-efficient savings vehicle provided by RL360 and fully integrated on our platform.
The account is subject to an initial charge of £100 and an additional annual wrap charge of 0.15%.
There's a minimum initial investment amount of £50,000.
Additional payments must start at £5,000.
There’s a choice of over 2,500 assets from around 180 fund managers.
Our offshore bonds have access to our platform model portfolio functionality.
The whole bond or a number of segments can be assigned.
The account can be used with a number of trusts from the Nucleus trust suite or an existing trust deed.
Find out more about the Offshore Bond account from our key features document.
The tax treatment of an investment or savings product depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future.
Past performance is not a reliable guide to future performance. The value of an investment can go down as well as up, and may be less than the amount(s) paid in.
Third party wrappers
We've developed links and relationships with a number of third-party providers to allow clients to invest in the Nucleus General account within additional wrappers, such as self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs). This allows clients to benefit from the investment range and functionality of Nucleus, while using a specialist product wrapper.
Here’s a list of the available third party providers. We don’t recommend or endorse any particular product provider available through our platform.
- @SIPP
- AXA IOM
- Canada Life
- Dentons
- Hornbuckle
- Ioma
- IPM
- James Hay
- Liberty
- Royal Skandia
- CASLP Ltd ('CASLP')*
- Curtis Banks
- Westerby
Charges – competitive, transparent pricing
Our aim is to offer fair, sustainable and transparent pricing. At Nucleus there are no hidden surprises and no hidden charges. What you see is what you get. We offer a simple, tiered pricing structure, which means you can offer excellent value for money to clients whatever the size of their portfolio.
By consolidating products currently held across multiple providers, clients can enjoy lower overall costs. Family accounts can also be linked to further minimise fees paid between a husband and wife or civil partnerships.
We don’t charge fees for set up, drawdown, switching or administration. The only additional charges are for onshore and offshore bonds and equity dealing through our trusted partners. This transparent and simple approach means you can be clear about how your client could be charged over the lifetime of their portfolio.
Platform charge
Asset value | Standard charge |
---|---|
Up to £0.5 | 0.33% |
£0.5 to £1m | 0.175% |
£1m+ | 0.05% |
Other charges
Offshore bond: Account opening charge of £100 and additional annual charge of 0.15%
- Onshore bond: Additional annual charge of 0.10%
- Equity dealing: 0.035% transaction charge subject to a minimum of £3.50
There are no
- Initial charges
- Fund switching charges
- Transfer on or off charges
- Drawdown set up charges
- Charges for cash withdrawals
- Model portfolio charges
- Valuation, statement or any other administration charges
Our approach to cash interest
We changed our approach to how we manage interest on platform cash with effect from July 2022. We’ll still pay interest on a quarterly basis, but we’ve updated the way we calculate it.
We actively manage platform cash with the banks we work with. In 2022, this approach has made it possible for us to pay your clients almost 10 times more interest for Q3 than we did for Q2 and a further 2.5 times for Q4. The table below shows the detail of this. And in the near future, we expect to pay even more.
We deposit platform cash with a carefully selected panel of banks. We’ll only use banks which are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority, regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, and are covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
Getting in touch with us couldn't be easier
Are you interested in becoming a Nucleus user? Then simply click on the button below to contact one of our regional business development directors who'll be delighted to help. If you're an existing user, hit the button below to download your regional contact sheet.