Unclaimed Asset Search - Find Lost Money • Locate & Claim Dormant Accounts
The Financial Times reports there is a “sea of unclaimed assets sloshing around the financial system,” very conservatively estimated to be worth £77 billion! Assets are considered dormant when contact with the owner is lost – typically due to a name change after marriage or divorce, an unreported change of address or expired postal forwarding… Click Here to Read More
Standard Life Demutualisation Unclaimed Shares Standard Life converted from policyholder ownership to a stock company – a process called demutualisation – on 10 July 2006. Eligible Members are entitled to receive shares in Standard Life plc, as a consequence of this demutualisation. Generally speaking, you qualify as an Eligible Member if, at the time of… Click Here to Read More
Portman Building Society’s 1.8 million qualifying members can expect payouts of between £200 to £1,000 pursuant to the building society’s 2007 takeover by Nationwide. For savers, the merger bonus will be worth 5.75% of either their total balance at the close of business on September 11, 2006, the day before the merger was announced; or of… Click Here to Read More
Halifax Unclaimed Shares from Demutualisation Halifax Building Society converted from member ownership to a stock company – a process called demutualisation – in June 1997. Qualifying Members were entitled to receive shares in Halifax plc, as a consequence of this demutualisation. To be eligible to make a claim, you must have had a mortgage or… Click Here to Read More
HBOS plc was established in 2001 as a result of the merger between Bank of Scotland and Halifax plc. If had an account with a bank or building society that is now part of Halifax or Bank of Scotland, including: North Brierley Equitable, Alford & District Investment Benefit, Braintree & Bocking, Yarmouth & Gorleston, Hull,… Click Here to Read More
In Scots law ownerless goods (Bona Vacantia) – including the assets of dissolved companies and the assets of missing persons – fall to the Crown, which is administered by the QLTR. The Office of Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (QLTR) is held by the Crown Agent. The realised value of such assets is paid by… Click Here to Read More
Estimates are in excess of £3 billion in pension benefits have gone unclaimed. If you believe you are entitled to collect unclaimed pension benefits from an occupational or personal pension scheme, the Pension Tracing Service may be of assistance. The Pension Tracing Service database consists of over 200,000 occupational and personal pension schemes that may be… Click Here to Read More
£1.8bn in lost investments that can be searched by National Savings and Investments include: British Savings Bonds Capital Bonds Children’s Bonus Bonds Deposit Bonds FIRST Option Bonds Fixed Rate Savings Bonds Income Bonds Investment Accounts ISA or Direct ISA Ordinary Account Pensioner’s Bonds Premium Bonds Save As You Earn Savings Certificates Yearly Plans Post Office… Click Here to Read More
Windfall from Building Society Demutualisation Staring with Abbey National in 1989, a growing number of building societies and insurers have demutualised; issuing windfall payments to qualifying members and listing shares on the stock exchange. Rules governing former building societies stipulate unclaimed shares may be sold three years after flotation, howevercustomers who can prove entitlement to windfall shares… Click Here to Read More
All limited companies in the UK are registered at Companies House, an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). There are more than 2 million limited companies registered in Great Britain, and more than 300,000 new companies are incorporated each year. Estimates are around £3 billion is owed to UK… Click Here to Read More