This will cost you a nominal amount. You can claim your windfall shares at any time during the first 12 years after a mutual has listed or been bought. After that time the shares can be sold by the company. You still have a right to money equal to the value of the shares but you won't get dividends or any subsequent growth in the share price. The bloodhound gang Unfortunately tracing your assets is not always easy.
Companies change names, either for marketing reasons or as a result of takeovers or mergers.
The stock you hold in a company, or the accounts you have with an investment firm, still have a value but finding who to claim against can be a difficult task. This is where the Unclaimed Assets Register can come in handy. This is a service set up by US-based life insurance company Aon. We have a fairly substantial database already and are in the process of encouraging all the major UK major organisations to provide us with their lost-asset data. The service costs 15 a search, whether they find your assets or not.