StashAway review

Pros and cons

Who it suits

• Singapore savers who want a managed portfolio with SGD 0 as the entry point and no starter sum to save up for.
• Readers putting money aside for a company or a group, who will find the corporate account a natural fit.
• Anyone who values phone help, since contact runs through email, chat and phone rather than written channels alone.

Who should look elsewhere

• Anyone who wants a flat-fee trading platform rather than a managed portfolio: eToro lists 0% for its management fee, where StashAway charges 0.2% to 0.8%.
• Large-balance readers who want the thinnest ongoing charge, since Vivid Standard lists 0.5% to 1.5% and the upper end of StashAway's 0.2% to 0.8% runs into that band.

Portfolios and accounts

StashAway keeps its portfolio range short and easy to read. The mix covers etf, esg and cash, so exchange traded funds sit next to an environmental, social and governance option, a cash option and a crypto option. For a reader building a plan, the fund and cash pairing is the practical part: it lets money wait in cash while the rest of the account runs on funds, and the environmental, social and governance option gives a values tilt without leaving the fund structure. The crypto option is the one that widens the range of outcomes inside the same account, so it fits a reader who wants that exposure on purpose rather than by default. corporate is the only account type listed, so every portfolio choice sits behind the same structure. That keeps the range easy to hold in mind, and it also means a reader who wants another wrapper for the same portfolios has nowhere to put it. Anyone shopping across robo-advisors should treat the portfolio list here as generous and the account list as thin.

How your money is protected

StashAway operates under the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the licence covering the firm is CMS100604. The licence number is the part worth keeping, because it is the handle to use when matching the business against the regulator's own records, which turns a claim about supervision into something a reader can look up directly. Regulation also decides which rulebook applies. Being supervised in Singapore means the firm answers to a single market's requirements on disclosure and conduct, which is a narrower promise than supervision across several continents. What the licence settles is who watches the business, while questions about custody, where client assets sit and how much of a balance is exposed if the firm fails are answered by the firm's own arrangements rather than by the regulator's name. Read the licence as the starting point for those checks, not the closing line of the review.

Account opening and funding

There is no floor on funding here. The minimum investment is SGD 0, so an account can be opened and started with a small amount rather than a set starter sum, and that is why StashAway ranks 1 of 82 on this measure among the platforms compared. A low entry point changes the arithmetic for anyone who would otherwise wait to gather a larger sum, since the account can take shape while the balance is still small. The account structure is the part to read carefully. corporate is the only account type listed, so the funding route runs through a corporate account and the same portfolios sit behind it. That fits a reader putting money aside for a company or a group. Someone saving in a personal name should weigh the narrow account line early, because the type on offer is the only structure available here, and it decides what the platform can do with the money.

Fees and costs

The running cost is a single management fee of 0.2% to 0.8%, charged on the account type listed as corporate. The entry point adds no cost of its own, because the minimum investment is SGD 0. In other words, what you pay each year is the fee, and the balance you start with is yours to choose. For scale, the median management fee across the robo-advisors in this comparison is 0.35%. The bottom of StashAway's range sits under that figure and the top sits over it, so the fee depends on which portfolio you hold rather than sitting at a single headline rate. A reader with a long, steady balance should work out which end of the range the chosen portfolio carries, because that is where the difference shows up over years rather than months. The trade-off to keep in view is that an automated portfolio charges for the management. That makes the useful comparison the cheapest managed option you can hold, and it makes the end of the range the entry deposit rather than the bottom of it.

The company behind it

StashAway is run by Asia Wealth Platform Pte Ltd, the legal entity that carries the pricing and the licence CMS100604. The business is based in Singapore and dates back to 2017, which places it among the longer-standing names in automated investing in the region. The office and the rulebook sit in the same market, so a reader dealing with this firm deals with one supervisor. Support is where the operation is strongest. Contact runs through email, chat and phone, covering email, live chat, phone, a help centre and a community space. Phone contact stands out in this group, where 72.6% of robo-advisors offer it, and a help centre is there for readers who would rather search than call. Together they mean help is available in writing and out loud, which matters most when the question is about a transfer or a fee rather than a chart.

How StashAway compares

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  XTB

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  NAGA

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  UNest

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  eToro

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  Linxea

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  Kitco

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Frequently asked questions

Sources

• eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid/institution/detail/201134-ASIA-W... checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Regulators, Licences

• stashaway.sg/about-us checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Founded

  “That's been our mission since 2017.”

• stashaway.sg/contact checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Headquarters, Support channels

  “105 Cecil St, #14-01 The Octagon, Singapore 069534”

• stashaway.sg/pricing checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Account types, Legal entity, Management fee, Minimum investment, Portfolio types

  “Corporate”