I am executor of my late father-in-law's affairs. I am trying to find the status of several share certificates and believe that some may no longer be valid. For example, I cannot locate details of Powergen and Iceland. Is there a place (web site, perhaps) where I can find out which of these many certificates are valid and if invalid whether they were replaced by something else?
TIA
S.J.F.
It would be wise to contact Lloyds TSB and Computershare who between them act as registrars for nearly all shares. They will confirm all your father-in-law's holdings, even those he may have lost the certificates for etc.
Lloyds TSB Registrars The Causeway Worthing West Sussex BN99 6DA
The Registrar Computershare Investor Services PLC PO Box 82, The Pavilions Bridgwater Road BRISTOL BS99 7NH United Kingdom
You can get historical prices on Yahoo if you need to declare them for tax purposes.
You need to talk to the registrars. They will be listed on the companies website, which may divert you to the new company.
The official source for company announcements is the stock exchanges regulatory news service (RNS). These can be viewed via a 3rd party service such as UK-wire
Otherwise use the specific company discussion boards on somewhere like The Motley Fool website.
Powergen was taken over by E.ON.
Daytona
Easiest way is to contact the registrars named on the share certs (hoping they are still in business).
Anyway, Powergen were taken over for cash in July 02 so cert is probably valueless. Iceland is now Big Food Group so cert has probably been replaced by a BFG one.
Powergen certs are not valueless. I had Powergen shares, but forgot I had them. Powergen also started sending mail to my old address from 10 years ago, so all my dividends were being returned. I consequently missed the sale, but contacted the registrars and got my money without hassle.
john
"stuart noble" >status of several share certificates and believe that some may no longer be
When I was dealing with my fatehrs' estate I had the same problem. i found that the registrars were very helpful, but that they did sometimes make mistakes. if you have some indication if the expected holding it is worth checking what the registrars tell you and questioning it if it does not match.
Robert
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