What happens to your self select Stocks & Shares ISA if your investment platform goes bust?

Good day, If I were to invest with A J Bell or Hargreaves Lansdown in a self select Stocks & Shares ISA and they were to 'go bust', what would happen to my investment? Thanks.

Hi David,

All platforms will appoint what we call a custodian. One of the jobs of this custodian is to effectively ring fence client money and client investments, so that if the platform business itself goes bust, the client money remains protected and intact.

AJ Bell and Hargreaves Lansdown look after about £50 billion and £100 billion of clients' investments respectively, and I think you're on very certain ground with either of these two options.

This is a very well regulated industry and the custodians role means that you should not need to worry about the impact of these firms potentially going bust.

Hope this helps,

Holly