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Maybe you know True Wealth already considered the largest robo advisor in Switzerland. With over 1 billion Swiss francs in assets under management and more than 17'000 customers the provider from Zurich has a lot of experience.
You can now also use this experience in the True Wealth pillar 3a solution. Because the Pillar 3a from True Wealth is the most favourable pillar 3a with securities in Switzerland!
What else is special about True Wealth's pillar 3a besides the fees and how the True Wealth Pillar 3a Experience You can find out how they turn out in this review.
To do this, open your free account with True Wealth using the Invitation link:
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I'm sure you'll want to discuss True Wealth Pillar 3a fees in more detail, but let's look at the technical features begin. These are at least as exciting!
While many investors are familiar with pillar 3a as an instrument for saving taxes, only a few consider the Necessity of staggering. Without staggered payments, pillar 3a can become a tax trap.
True Wealth staggers for you automatically:
With the automatic graduation, True Wealth is the first 3a provider ever to take this tax optimisation off your hands as a client and automate it. This feature will save some customers a lot of taxes and therefore has a very positive impact on the True Wealth Pillar 3a experience and rating.
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When you start your True Wealth Pillar 3a experience, you'll quickly find the opportunity to automatic filling stand out.
Let's say you have a Standing orderwhich will transfer CHF 1,000 per month to your True Wealth Depot transfers. True Wealth is activated when "automatic filling" now prioritise paying the current maximum pillar 3a contribution into your 3a custody account.
Only when the Maximum amount is achieved, everything about it will be Free assets of the True Wealth Robo Advisor paid in.
This way you always benefit from the tax advantages of pillar 3a and never have to worry about the maximum amount.
Even a Transfer from your free assets to your pillar 3a is at all times possible with just one click:
It's also exciting that as a True Wealth client, you can only once an investment decision have to meet.
The strategy designed for you (and subsequently adaptable) is then used for your investments in the free assets as well as in Pillar 3a.
So your Investments coordinated with each other and thus always maintain the ideal risk-return ratio.
To do this, open your free account with True Wealth using the Invitation link:
That the Strategy set only once and then applies to all investment pots in True Wealth can be seen as an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is clearly simplicity.
The disadvantage would be that only a single investment strategy can be pursued and thus No differentiation in investment risk for different investment objectives can be made.
Example: A 3a pot is to be drawn in 5 years for a home ownership promotion. Accordingly, the amount should not be exposed to a high equity risk. However, at the same time you still have a long-term investment strategy in your free assets, which is geared towards retirement in 20 years with a high equity risk. Currently, no reasonable distinction can be made here with the True Wealth Pillar 3a solution.
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The True Wealth Pillar 3a fees can't be beaten. You're probably wondering how True Wealth can offer the solution at these conditions:
True Wealth Pillar 3a Fees: For the Administration are not charged. This makes the solution the most favourable pillar 3a with securities in Switzerland.
Calculated Product costswhich depend on your strategy.
Here is an exemplary extract from a depot with:
-> 0.17 % Total fees
You should not necessarily judge a product by its price alone. A comprehensive comparison of True Wealth vs. Viac Pillar 3a would go beyond the scope of this article.
Therefore only one quick glimpse on the fees for an investment strategy with a high proportion of equities:
A comparable investment strategy at Viac (such as Global 80 or Global 100) is charged 0.44 % effective management fee + 0.01 % product costs. The fees are therefore about 2.6x more expensive than with True Wealth.
For this, the solution from Viac has already existed for several years (technically sophisticated) and also offers very innovative functions.
If you'd like a more detailed Viac vs True Wealth or even a True Wealth vs Frankly comparison, feel free to share it in the comments!
The technical price is True Wealth 3a offer unbeatableThis is also confirmed by platforms like Moneyland.
Smart functions such as the automatic scales, automatic filling or about the Transfer from free assets make the solution particularly innovative.
With its Pillar 3a, True Wealth puts the Benchmark once again to a new level for all providers. For us investors, this means only good things!
The conclusion of the True Wealth Pillar 3a experience is therefore as follows very positive off.
If you decide to use True Wealth's pillar 3a, open your account via the following link. If you also use Robo Advising later, you will benefit from lower fees.
Will you switch with your provision? Share your thoughts in the comments
To do this, open your free account with True Wealth using the Invitation link:
11 Responses
Hello Eric
Thank you very much for the great platform! At last, simple, understandable explanations - and not from the financial advisor at the bank, who gives the impression of working on commission!
I have had two classic pillar 3a accounts for almost 20 years, which I would like to convert (partially?) into a 3a fund. I'm wavering between Selma and True Wealth. What is not clear to me: Can I only use part of the invested 3a account funds for this?
Thanks for your feedback in advance and have a nice evening, Barbara
Dear Barbara,
thank you for your positive feedback! 🙂
Existing 3a pots can no longer be split retrospectively (with the exception of a home ownership promotion - WEF).
You can only transfer entire pots. Once you have arrived at your destination, money can be invested depending on the provider and the strategy you have chosen (this can also be very conservative, with a very small share of equities).
I hope this helps you! 🙂
I can also fully recommend the 3a custody account from True Wealth. I also have accounts with Viac and Frankly. If you want to save fees with True Wealth, you can use this link
i already have truewealth and am satisfied. does it make sense to have all pillar 3a there as well? or would it be safer to have an alternative with viac so that i don't invest everything in the same portfolio with the same strategy? i'm a bit unsure. or are the investment products similar with the two anyway?
If you would like to open Truewealth with a discount on the fees, please use the link.
Hello Claudia
Of course, True Wealth's fees are currently lower than those of Viac.
Personally, I am a fan of target-oriented investment. Accordingly, it makes sense to align the strategy in each portfolio with a specific goal. For example, portfolio 1 with strategy 1 for goal 1, portfolio 2 with strategy 2 for goal 2...
Kind regards
Eric
I experienced True Wealth a few years back on the investment side and their fees were high in comparison to Degiro or IBKR. Curious to see where the market leads if providers like TrueWealth start promising 0%. Their clear goal is to hook you into their other products, if it fails my thinking is that they will start charging at some point.
http://www.viac.ch still remains personally the one platform for investing my vested benefits. Its product simplicity (desktop and mobile), investment possibilities, customer service has been top so far and fees are still in the lower end of the market.
Hi Michel
thanks for your input!
As I spoke to the True Wealth team, they not planning to rise the fee. Currently the fees are saved with a contract. In the end of course its not guaranteed but you can then still switch your pillar 3a.
Degiro and IBKR are no Robo Advisors so the fee comparison makes no sense here. They are foreign trading platforms offering a different service.
The graduation is a good idea in principle. If I remember correctly, you can have a maximum of five 3rd pillar accounts. Can I also say that I only want _one_ account because I also have accounts with other providers?
And one more basic remark: Whether taxes can actually be saved with several accounts depends on the place of residence ( cantonal tax laws ) and the legal situation at the time of retirement ( political risk, the GOVERNMENT always needs money ).
Hello Alain,
How many 3a accounts you can have varies from canton to canton.
As far as I know, you can have as many 3a accounts as you want in Zurich. What makes sense is another question which answered here will.
It is probably better to have 8 accounts, which are then intelligently staggered over 5 years, than to have only 2 accounts.
I have been with True Wealth for about 6 months and am one of the 13,000 customers who are fully satisfied. I opened it on the recommendation of schwiizerfranke.com.
The new 3a offer also convinced me and I cancelled the VIAC accounts and applied for the transfer to True Wealth. VIAC even contacted me by phone and asked me why I wanted to switch. I think they wanted to change my mind :-).
Unfortunately, the transfer from VIAC to True Wealth takes about 2 weeks. For me, an incomprehensibly long time.
If you want to save 0.25% on True Wealth's asset management fee for 1 year, use this link.
True Wealth was no longer on my radar for 3A. Until now, I've only ever been interested in VIAC and Frankly, who do it "modernly" and cheaply. Maybe I'll really try them out for 2023.