In order to help people out, I think probably it would be helpful if I explained a little bit about what it could look like for different people.

So say, for example, you're a new investor who's only just starting out and you're going to be regularly investing, maybe into investment funds, which is one of the easiest ways to invest.

Then you want to probably be looking for a platform that charges you a percentage fee and doesn't charge you for buying or selling funds.

So some that do that are Hargreaves Landsdown, Fidelity, a smaller platform called R Plan,

which has got lots of helpful tools, and best invest.

If you've got a bit more money and you're moving further up the scale and you don't mind paying to buy

and sell funds, then you can start looking at ones that charge you a flat fee. So perhaps

you might want to go for something like the Share Centre, Alliance Trust or Interactive

Investor. And what's good about Interactive Invest investor is they'll charge you 20 pound a quarter,

but they then give you that back in free trades. So you could actually get most of that admin charge back.

Or you might want to look at something where if you're buying shares, you want to keep that share

dealing down to the lowest possible charge. So if you're buying shares regularly, you don't really want to necessarily paying 10 to 15 pounds to do so.

So look for something like perhaps AJ Bell U invest, which has cheaper share dealing,

Iweb, which has five pound share dealing.

And there's one called Club finance actually which charges a fairly

an admin fee of 0.24% which sounds quite low but it charges a minimum of 120 pounds a year

but you then get 2 pound 50 share dealing so if you want to build up a portfolio of say 20 shares

the difference between paying 2 pound 50 for doing that and paying £12, £15 for doing that,

is quite a lot. So it's, as I said, it's thinking about what sort of bracket you fit into.

And then there are other platforms that will do quite a bit of the work for you. There's one called

Nutmeg, where you put in your goals and it has a special tool that works out for you. And they

actually, it's like wealth management, they actually choose where to out for you. And they actually, it's like wealth management,

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