Exploring investments on Smart Investor

INVESTMENTS

You have the choice of thousands of investments to help you achieve your financial goals. Once you’ve opened one of our accounts, we offer you various ways to explore and find the right investments for you.

The value of investments can fall as well as rise. You may get back less than you invest. If you’re not sure about investing please seek independent advice. Before transferring your investments, find out about any charges, exit penalties, benefits you may lose or investments that you can’t transfer to us.

Choose investments that suit you

Barclays Funds List

About our Funds List

Selected by Barclays’ investment specialists, it is a list of funds that have built solid reputations and established sound investment processes.

Investing in international markets

Explore international markets with Smart Investor.

Funds, ETFs and investment trusts

Our services are available to Smart Investor account holders, so you’ll need to open an account to explore the funds, ETFs and investment trusts we offer.

Most popular investments

Here, you’ll find a list of the most popular funds, shares, ETFs, and investment trusts as chosen by our investors, and the top fund picks depending on the type of account – whether an ISA, or SIPP. The details of our most popular funds are updated monthly.

Ready-made Investments

A straight-forward way to invest.

Research your investments with Smart Investor

We now offer various options to help inform your investment decisions.

Barclays Price Improver™

Barclays Price Improver™ gives you the best price available from our selected Retail Service Providers (RSPs) every time you buy or sell shares, Exchange Traded Funds, investment trusts or Real Estate Investment Trusts on the London Stock Exchange.

IPOs and new issues

Accessing investments before they’re available on the London Stock Exchange.

We're not offering IPOs at the moment.

A simple, low-cost fee structure

Customer fee

0.25% p.a.

up to £200,000

and 0.05% on investments over £200,000

Buying and selling shares online*

£6

per trade**

Free to invest in funds online

Activity costs table

Activity

Cost

Buying and selling funds online

No charge**

Regular investments (including shares)

No charge

Dividend reinvestment

No charge

Holding cash

No charge

Transferring investments

No charge

Cash withdrawal and account closure

No charge

*Including ETFs, investment trusts, bonds and gilts

**£25 per trade by telephone. Taxes may apply when buying shares. A foreign exchange and an international brokerage fee will be charged when trading international shares.

Learn more about our fees and Interest rates on cash.

You can also use our simple cost calculator to understand the charges that would apply.

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The value of investments can fall as well as rise so you may get back less than you invest. Tax rules can change and their effects vary depending on your individual circumstances. Please check the costs involved before transferring.

Investment ISA

Invest your £20,000 ISA allowance and protect your investment returns from income tax, tax on dividends and capital gains tax, with our Investment (Stocks and Shares) ISA.

Investment Account

Low cost, flexible investing

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