Summary

This Ethical CushonMix portfolio spreads your money across a range of funds from our comparison tables that invest in line with ethical criteria.

Spreading your money across a range of ethical funds allows each one to be slightly riskier, which helps boost projected returns, whilst still controlling the overall risk of the investment.

This means the Ethical CushonMix offers higher projected returns than alternative ethical investment strategies with the same risk profile. Find out more about the CushonMix portfolios.

Remember, you can set up as many separate ISA pots as you like with Cushon and they all sit in one main account behind the scenes. This is helpful if you want to ring-fence different pots for different savings goals, or to spread your money across different risk profiles.

Royal London Unit Trust Managers Limited

Vanguard Investments (IRE)

Recent performance

The mix of funds within the Cushon Compliant Ethical CushonMix medium risk/return portfolio that is available for new investment pots is updated every day depending on the latest market conditions and fund performance. The historical performance shown here relates to this latest mix of funds. However, once you select this portfolio for your pot then we will not change the mix of funds without your permission. Past versions of the Cushon Compliant Ethical CushonMix medium risk/return portfolio will have contained a different mix of funds and will therefore have performed differently.

More detail

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Portfolio

The Ethical CushonMix portfolio is made up of ethical funds that have a low correlation with each other. This allows each individual fund to be slightly riskier (which helps boost projected returns) whilst still controlling the risk of the portfolio overall.

Royal London Short Term Money Market Y Acc

The Fund’s investment objective is to preserve capital and provide an income over rolling 12-month periods by investing at least 80% in cash and cas...

Fund Factsheet Key Investor Information Document

This is the standard Key Investor Information Document for Royal London Short Term Money Market Y Acc and is aimed at retail investors.

However, we buy funds wholesale on your behalf, which means that we may have negotiated better terms than stated in this document. In particular:

  • The minimum investment is a £100 lump sum or a monthly amount of £50 via direct debit or £10 via payroll and this can be spread across multiple funds.
  • There are no initial charges on any funds bought via us.

We do not accept any commission or other payments from fund managers. Our only income comes from flat 0.92 % charge you pay for investing with us.

Vanguard ESG Developed European Index Acc GBP

The Fund aims to provide long-term growth of capital by seeking to achieve the performance of the FTSE Developed Europe Index....

Fund Factsheet Key Investor Information Document

This is the standard Key Investor Information Document for Vanguard ESG Developed European Index Acc GBP and is aimed at retail investors.

However, we buy funds wholesale on your behalf, which means that we may have negotiated better terms than stated in this document. In particular:

  • The minimum investment is a £100 lump sum or a monthly amount of £50 via direct debit or £10 via payroll and this can be spread across multiple funds.
  • There are no initial charges on any funds bought via us.

We do not accept any commission or other payments from fund managers. Our only income comes from flat 0.92 % charge you pay for investing with us.

Vanguard ESG Developed World All Cap Equity Index Acc GBP

The Fund seeks to provide long-term growth of capital by tracking the performance of the FTSE Developed All World Index, a market-capitalisation weigh...

Fund Factsheet Key Investor Information Document

This is the standard Key Investor Information Document for Vanguard ESG Developed World All Cap Equity Index Acc GBP and is aimed at retail investors.

However, we buy funds wholesale on your behalf, which means that we may have negotiated better terms than stated in this document. In particular:

  • The minimum investment is a £100 lump sum or a monthly amount of £50 via direct debit or £10 via payroll and this can be spread across multiple funds.
  • There are no initial charges on any funds bought via us.

We do not accept any commission or other payments from fund managers. Our only income comes from flat 0.92 % charge you pay for investing with us.

Performance projection and risk

Our projected returns are calculated using the same approach as big financial services companies use when they're managing their own money. They take full account of all charges.

Read more about the risks of investing, try our risk/return explorer or find out about how we calculate projections.

No-one can predict what the stock market is going to do and projections are only based on the balance of probability. This portfolio is classified as medium risk/return and you may get back less than you put in. Projections are useful, but they are not reliable indicators of future performance. The "bad case" is not the same as "worst case":

  • There is a one in six chance that returns will be better than the good case
  • There is a one in six chance that returns will be worse than the bad case

Free CushonMe

CushonMe is our free investment risk and performance monitoring service. Its powerful algorithms will check up on your investment every single day and send you an email if any of its alerts are triggered.

It’s completely free to you (we pay for it out of the flat 0.92 % pa charge for investing with us) and you can read more about CushonMe here. But if you'd prefer not to have CushonMe you can choose to opt out when you set up your account.

The daily review covers five key things:

  1. Projected returns:

    whether other investments in our comparison tables have significantly better projected returns

  2. Performance:

    the recent performance of your investment

  3. Target:

    whether your investment is on track to meet the targets you've specified

  4. Risk / return:

    whether the risk/return profile of your investment has changed because:

    • there is now a significant risk of loss between now and your target date
    • market conditions are unusually volatile
    • the mix of your investment has drifted over time into a different risk / return category
  5. Charges:

    whether other investments in our comparison tables have significantly lower charges

One thing CushonMe won’t do is send you junk email. There are thresholds on each item to make sure we only alert you if it's really worth it.

CushonMe uses the same techniques as big financial services companies use to manage their own money, but it does not provide advice and you still make all your own decisions on what to do. We use sophisticated actuarial technology and we're the only people making this sort of powerful service available directly to consumers.

Charges

A breakdown of the charges for this investment is below. There are no other charges. You can switch funds, cash in your investment or transfer it to another provider for free at any time.

Annual Initial Other
Total charge 0.92% 0% None
Platform charges 0.79% 0% None
Fund managers' charges 0.13% 0% None
Royal London Short Term Money Market Y Acc 0.10% 0% None
Vanguard ESG Developed European Index Acc GBP 0.14% 0% None
Vanguard ESG Developed World All Cap Equity Index Acc GBP 0.20% 0% None

We make no initial charge on any of our investments. However, funds do incur dealing costs which they may pass on to you (at cost). Often these are free because funds get big economies of scale and can net trades off against each other, but if they do apply they are typically between 0% and 2% as a one-off cost.

The fund managers' charges apply on a fund-by-fund basis. The total shown is based on the initial proportion invested in each fund.

I have also seen and read the information on costs and charges

Everything online, safe and secure

With our easy to use online account you get everything in one place. No more lost paperwork. No more hassle.

From your account you can do all the standard things you'd expect to be able to do like:

  • View your balance and recent transactions
  • Pay money in, take money out, change direct debits and switch money between funds
  • Update your address, bank and other details

But, because you're with Cushon, you'll also find thing you might not expect like:

  • Up-to-date "good case" vs "bad case" projections of what your investment might be worth in future
  • The latest results of our daily CushonMe review of you investment
  • All your documents in one, easy-to-find, place
  • Tools to help you if you want to change the target for your investment or change its level of risk/return

And our robust security measures mean you can be confident your money is safe and secure.

If you choose to invest via your bank account this will not connect your investment choice to any contributions made via payroll deduction. Are you sure you want to continue with this selection?