Free regular investing
Regular investing is easy to set up and manage online. You are able to set up to 25 regular monthly investments for each account. These can be in funds (unit trusts and OEICs), popular shares (including the FTSE 350), ETFs and investment trusts.
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The minimum monthly investment was £10 and the dealing commission charge was £1.50. | The minimum monthly investment amount is £25 and if you set up your instructions online, you will pay no regular monthly trading fees. |
EQi collect direct debits on the 1st and 15th of the month, the Regular Investment Trade was placed on the 22nd of each month. | For any new regular investments you set up after the move, your direct debit will be collected on the 12th of the month and invested on the 1st Wednesday of each month. |
You could ask for a £ amount of your direct debit to be invested in each of your chosen investments. | You can ask for a £ amount of your direct debit to be invested in each of your chosen investments. |
Existing instructions
If you have existing regular investment instructions in place, linked to a monthly direct debit instruction, we will move these across for you. But we will only do this for investments that are eligible for regular investing on the interactive investor platform.
We will continue collecting your direct debit on the same date as with EQi but the trading date for your regular investments will move to the 1st Wednesday of each month.
How to find
Once you have your account ready, log in and select 'regular investments' from the 'trading' menu.