Typical charging structure

An affordable solution that starts at 0.1%

Typically, clients will pay you a monthly platform fee to cover the cost of custody, trading and any investment activity; while we’ll separately charge your firm a custody fee (calculated on each of your clients’ portfolios), a fee for client or adviser portals (if you’re using them), along with any variable costs incurred (like trading fees, Direct Debits, transfers or wrappers).

Our custody fee is designed to be one of the most affordable in the market, starting at just 0.1% and tiering down to zero for larger portfolios – with a minimum annual fee of £36,000. And there are absolutely no costs for integration or set-up.

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Clients pay you a platform fee covering custody, trading and investment costs, while you pay us a custody fee and other variable costs

Our custody service can be accessed either through our portals, or directly via our API

Flexible and modular

Take our off-the-shelf portals, or DIY with our API

Our custody service and investment technology can either be accessed through our off-the-shelf adviser, DFM and client portals – separately priced at £12 + VAT per user per year (with an annual minimum of £36,000 + VAT), or through your own, custom-built interface that you connect directly via our API.

You’ll only pay for what you use – and there are no costs for integrating, no matter how you choose to.

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Target AUM

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Target customer numbers

Roughly how many investors do you expect to use your service?

Client and/or adviser portals

Would you be using our off-the-shelf investor or client management portals?

Pension

Would you be offering a pension?

Good to know. Roughly what proportion of clients will have one, do you think?

And roughly how many of those will be in decumulation?

Instruments

Roughly how many unique instruments would you be looking to make available?

Transfers

And finally, will some of the customers you've told us about have existing assets that you'll want to transfer across?

Ok — roughly what proportion of your target customer base, do you think?

A rough breakdown of the costs…

An all-in blended cost of

Seccl charges

Custody (assuming 0.1% of total AUM for ease – or an annual minimum of £36k) User interfaces (at £12+VAT per user per year – or an annual minimum of £36k+VAT)

Variable or third-party costs, recharged to you

One-off cost for initial transfers (assuming £25 per client, or £50 for pension clients) SIPPs (at £50+VAT for accumulation and £175+VAT for decumulation) Instruments (at £36.50 per line per year) Trading costs (assuming 0.0015% of AUM per month) Direct debits (assuming 50% of the clients have one DD per month)

Total

Total as percentage of assets

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It’s important to understand…

This calculator doesn’t account for the operational cost involved with running your own investment platform.

It’s a significant step that will carry certain new and perhaps unfamiliar roles and responsibilities – and will no doubt mean you’ll have to hire new administrative, operations or customer service staff.

To learn more about what’s involved, take a look at our introductory guide…

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The detail

Our full pricing breakdown

Want to know the detail? We’ve outlined all the potential costs involved with using our service below.

Digital custody

AUM per client	Price
£0 to £500k	10 bps
£500k to £1m	5 bps
£1m +	0 bps

Clients’ platform and adviser charges are calculated based on their end-of-day portfolio valuations during the previous month. Firms will be subject to a minimum custody charge of £36,000 per year.

Client and adviser portals

Our portals for clients and advisers are priced at £12 per year (+ VAT) per client, subject to another minimum charge of £36,000 per year (+ VAT), separate to the minimum custody charge. Note that, unlike our digital custody service, our client portals are subject to VAT. Any improvements to the interface will automatically flow into portals at no extra cost.

Other variable costs

Item	Cost
Direct Debit (per DD)	£0.50
Instrument charge (per year, per instrument)	£36.50, i.e. 100 lines of stock = £3,650
Fund transactions	No cost
UK ETF & Shares (bulk traded at the end of day)	4 bps per trade (minimum of £4)
In specie transfers (per line, per wrapper)	£1
Non-SIPP pension transfers (through Origo)	£15 per pension

SIPP costs

Account	Maximum cost
Accumulation	£50 + VAT
Decumulation	£125 + VAT, in addition to accumulation cost (i.e. £175 + VAT)

Note: these variable costs are to cover the charges that we ourselves take on when facilitating transactions.

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