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Nutmeg is offering you the chance to receive between 2,500 and 300,000 Avios (or a cash investment boost of between £25 and £3,000) when you start a transfer of at least £5,000 from existing pensions to Nutmeg by 30th November 2024.

This offer is available for those aged 18+ and UK residents only. Terms and Conditions apply.

Get up to 300,000 Avios with Nutmeg's pension transfer offer

Nutmeg is a digital wealth manager and part of the J.P. Morgan Chase family, that builds and manages diverse investment portfolios, using technology to help keep charges low.

The Avios collection and cash boost tiers are linked to how much you transfer during the promotion, resulting in a maximum reward of 300,000 Avios or £3,000.

How the offer works

There are nine reward tiers and it is important to note that the reward you will receive will be based on the total value of all completed pension transfers. If you make more than one pension transfer your reward will be based on the combined amount.

You will receive either the cash investment boost or the Avios and not both. You can choose between the cash investment boost or Avios reward when you fill in your offer registration.

Here is the tiered earning structure:

Transfer ValueInvestment Boost RewardAvios Reward
£300,000+£3,000300,000
£200,000 – £299,999£2,000200,000
£150,000 – £199,999£1,500150,000
£100,000 – £149,999£1,000100,000
£50,000 – £99,999£50050,000
£30,000 – £49,999£20020,000
£25,000 – £29,999£15015,000
£10,000 – £24,999£505,000
£5,000 – £9,999£252,500

A cash investment boost is paid into your Nutmeg account as unallocated cash, which you can allocate to an investment pot of your choice. You can also choose to withdraw the investment boost if you wish.

How much can I transfer?

The offer is open to new and existing customers who initiate transfers of pensions from other providers to Nutmeg during the promotional period. This offer can’t be used together with any other Nutmeg offer unless otherwise specified.

To qualify, the total combined value of all pension transfers must be at least £5,000. You can transfer less than this, but you will not receive Avios or an investment boost.

There is no upper limit to the amount you can transfer, but the maximum Avios reward you can receive is 300,000, and the maximum cash investment boost you can get is £3,000, when you transfer a total of £300,000 or more.

Get up to 300,000 Avios with Nutmeg's pension transfer offer

Which products are included in the offer?

This offer is specifically for pension transfers.

You are still able to apply for this pension transfer offer if you have already applied for the Nutmeg ISA Transfer offer, but you must register for this offer separately, and the offers cannot be combined.

Nutmeg offers four investment styles to pick from:

  • Fully Managed – These portfolios are proactively managed by Nutmeg’s experienced investment team who make strategic adjustments to try and mitigate against losses and boost returns.
  • Smart Alpha Portfolios powered by J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Smart Alpha portfolios combine Nutmeg’s core investment principles, ETF and fractional investment expertise, with the in-house, multi-asset knowledge and experience of one of the world’s leading investment houses.
  • Socially Responsible – Like the Fully Managed style, these portfolios are proactively managed by Nutmeg’s investment team and place an emphasis on investments in companies and bond issuers that take into account certain environmental, social and governance considerations.
  • Fixed Allocation – These portfolios are designed to perform with less intervention by Nutmeg’s investment team. The portfolios are automatically rebalanced to ensure your investments match your risk level, but the assets will only be reviewed once a year to make sure they’re still right for you.

Nutmeg’s latest awards

Nutmeg is well-respected by the investment industry and consistently wins awards for its products and services.

Some of the most recent accolades include the Your Money Investment Awards 2024 for Best Investment Platform for User ExperienceBoring Money Best Buy Awards 2024 for Best Buy ISA, Best Buy LISA, Best for Customer Service and Best Value for Money. Additionally, it has been awarded ‘Best European Digital Wealth Platform Using ETFs’ in the ETF Express Europe 2024 awards.

How do I apply?

You must register for the offer by completing this application form.

If you wish to receive the Avios reward, make sure you have a British Airways Executive Club account before you apply, as you will need to input your account number into the application form at this stage.

Once you have input your email address, British Airways Executive Club number and ticked to say if you are an existing Nutmeg customer, you click ‘Get started’. You will then be prompted to either log in (if you are already a Nutmeg customer) or to create an account.

Once you’re in your dashboard, just click ‘Transfers’ on the left-hand side. You have until the end of the day on 30th November 2024 to initiate your transfers.

You will receive your reward within six months of initiating your product transfers. If the pension transfer is still in progress after six months, you’ll get your reward within sixty days once the transfer is complete. You can see the full list of terms and conditions here.

Pension transfers initiated before the promotion ends will be eligible. The transfer does not necessarily have to complete by the offer end date.

Remember, as with all investing, your capital is at risk. The value of your portfolio with Nutmeg can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest. Pension eligibility and tax rules apply. Before you transfer, check you won’t lose any guarantees or benefits and that you know what charges you may incur. During any transfer, your investments will be out of the market. If you are unsure if a pension is right for you, please seek financial advice.

The offer ends at 23:59 on 30th November 2024. You can register here.

Comments (23)

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  • yonasl says:

    Getting avios is great. We all are here because we enjoy good deals and affordable travel.

    However your pension provider is an important decision that can cost you considerable sums of money.

    Nutmeg is a formidable product but please check the yearly charges and fund charges (and compare them properly with your current provider or other options) as even small % numbers can turn into large £££ values when you are investing a lot of money.

    • begonya says:

      thank you very much

    • Johnny Tabasco says:

      Quite. Points collecting is a hobby and it should be no more than a hobby. Anyone considering doing this only to get the points windfall, prob needs to take a step back from the game.

  • BBbetter says:

    The biggest issue with moving to providers like Nutmeg is, they force your current platform to sell 100% and only take cash. 1) So you’ll be out of market for some time
    2) you pay transaction fees at both ends
    3) while the funds may sound reasonable, they may include some risk that’s not easily visible. For example excessive home bias or the global bond funds could be unhedged to gbp.

    Check the Monevator site for more info.
    https://monevator.com/passive-fund-of-funds-the-rivals/

    • begonya says:

      thank you very much

    • TooPoorToBeHere says:

      Exactly right, well-said.

      For SIPPs where you can transfer in-specie, offers like this are a complete no-brainer. I’ve made a tax-free £2500 net of additional fees this year and there’s a decent chance I’ll do the same again next year, just moving the same stock from two providers to two others.

    • h1jfg says:

      None of these comments are correct. I have held a private Nutmeg pension for years now, and have just taken advantage of this offer to do a partial transfer of my current works pension from another pension provider. This process worked a treat. I took 95% of my works pension pot and transferred it to Nutmeg. Didn’t need to close my work pension. No transfer charges at either side. Completed this week. Waiting on my 100,000 Avios. And Nutmeg offer great pension products. Especially their JP Morgan Smart Alpha product. My growth last year was 16%.

      • TooPoorToBeHere says:

        You crossed the spread though!

      • Swiss Jim says:

        Agreed. Nutmeg is a good product, especially when combined with preferential rates they offer some. My returns have been strong.

        Which providers are you switching in specie between?

      • BBbetter says:

        Feel sorry for people who don’t understand how pension transfers work.

        • The Savage Squirrel says:

          Well, describing a product as excellent on the basis that one fund went up 16%, in a year when the market went up 24%, does not suggest a high degree of financial literacy….

      • CJ says:

        16% seems low….FTSE Developed World is up 21.3% since last year and that’s not to mention that nutmeg fees are pretty high. Smart Alpha is 1.11% whereas Vanguard only charge 0.30 to 0.40% for global index funds.

  • Fiona says:

    Really? Choosing a pension to get avios?

  • Timerichmoneypoor says:

    Despite the obvious disclosure at the top of this advert, it is a little sneaky to put it in exactly the same position and style as the normal daily articles.

    • Rob says:

      No, sneaky is when a newspaper or magazine does it and puts ‘Daily Mail / GQ promotion’ in tiny print, in a font colour virtually the same as the image underneath it, in the bottom right corner ….

  • Dev says:

    Rob, I really like HfP and the general tone/style of your work but in some honest feedback, I am really feeling uncomfortable reading about the Nutmeg deals and the what appears to be the regularity of them.

    I genuinely believe that HfP would be better off not giving oxygen to these types of deals irrespective of the large amount of points on offer. A significant life altering decision on the something as vital as your pension should never have a points angle to it.

    • Ilou says:

      Well if you liken HFP and find it useful

      Rob has to make a living to keep things running for your benefit!

      Don’t understand these comments, don’t read the article if not of interest .. headline give hint to read it or not

    • CJ says:

      For me, is the fact that Nutmeg are charging pretty high fees. They charge 1% when you should be aiming for less than 0.4%. Half a % might not sound a lot but compounded over 30-40 years really adds up. It could set people back several years.

    • Erico1875 says:

      Dev.
      I suppose if you donated the equivalent as what Nutmeg pay then Rob would maybe take your comments seriously.
      However (just like me 😀) I suspect you would rather freeload all the great advice on this site.
      TIP.
      For everything in life, there is a price to pay.Pay the price and you can have whatever you want

    • Charlie says:

      …’and the what’…. and ‘…but in some honest feedback’… and ‘…life altering decision…’. hahaha 🙂 Are you back in Swindon Ricky?!

    • Charlie says:

      and ‘…not giving oxygen’… 🙂 You’re cracking me up here Ricky 🙂

  • Alex Sm says:

    I have a slightly different problem with Nutmeg. They are great and one of the most user-friendly services of its kind. I have been with them since 2017 but they don’t reward the loyalty of existing customers (unless you have millions in savings but those people care less about a few 000s Avios, I guess), they always target someone else… 😭

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