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Lord Lee, hailed as Britain’s first ISA millionaire, tells a compelling tale about how a sensible approach to investment, which includes the prevalent use of the tax free accounts, can pay huge dividends if you will pardon the pun!
Writing in The Telegraph, Lord Lee describes how, after 16 years of investing a total of £126,000 into ISAs, his pot had grown to a hugely impressive £1 million.
Of course, not everyone who invests in ISAs will reach the level of return achieved by Lord Lee, but as we approach the April deadline for using your 2013/2014 annual ISA allowance, his examples proves a potent reminder of just how valuable ISAs can be to your investment portfolio.
Using mainly Stocks and Shares ISAs, Lee preaches patience to ISA investors and revealed that his own biggest investing flaw was a lack of it. Certainly Lee now seems to have little reason to worry, but with one holding sold early for between £4.88 and £11 now worth north of £20, the investor still clearly has some regrets.
For any investors who are not currently following Lord Lee’s example, April 5th is a key date. The end of the current tax year marks your last chance to invest up to the government imposed maximum ISA limit. This year the limit has been set at £11,520, with no more than £5,760 able to be held in a Cash ISA.
Lee ends his article by hailing British business and by saying that we, as a nation, should be encouraging responsible savings and investments. Certainly, using your ISA allowance is one very sensible way of starting to do just that.
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The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you originally invested.
Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
