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Investment Options
Shares
You can trade shares on seven world markets from London to New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Amsterdam and Brussels.
Funds
Investing in funds gives you cost effective exposure to a much wider range of investments than you would be able to obtain as an individual. Spreading your money between different sectors, indices or geographical locations can help to reduce the risk involved in stock market investing.
Structured Products
Bank of Scotland Structured Products are investments linked to the performance of one or more underlying asset. These can include global indices, commodity prices, individual equities and more.
Find out more about Structured Products
Investment Trusts
Investment Trusts are companies that invest in the shares of other companies on behalf of investors. Investors' money is taken and pooled together by a professional fund manager who will then purchase stocks and shares in a wide variety of companies.
ETFs
Exchange Traded Funds, or ETFs, are pooled funds that are traded on the stock exchanges around the world in exactly the same way as stocks and shares.
Bonds
Corporate Bonds are essentially loans made to companies from investors. The bonds are issued by the companies aiming to raise capital to invest in their business.
Gilts
Gilt Edged Securities or Gilts are bonds issued by HM Treasury. Once maturity is reached, the stock is bought back by the Government at face value.
Preference Shares
Preference shares are a class of share which pay a fixed rate of dividend. An investor won’t benefit from any increases in a company's profits as their dividends are fixed - similarly they would be protected if a company’s profits fell.
