Top tips for planning the perfect ISA strategy

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Leaving your ISA decisions until the last minute could leave you with a bad deal. Here are seven tips to help you make the most of ISA investing...

As the end of the tax year looms, it is easy to predict a great number of ISA investors will panic-buy whatever stocks and shares ISA seems the best option. Yet, as with any hurried decision, this can leave you dazzled by past performing tables and subsequently with a bad deal. Jason Hollands, of advisory firm Bestinvest, sets out seven top tips on how to go about choosing an ISA fund: 1. Step back and think about your overall strategy When you are up against a deadline it is easy to get sucked into a fund selection process before first stepping back and doing the necessary stra...

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