o/t anyone getting Standard Life shares?

[timbha]

how many?

 

[Wondergull]

I got a letter this morning from them saying i didnt qualify for any shares

Not sure what you need to qualify. Does anyone know? My work pension is with them.

 

[Bromley shrimp]

May do - need to read the prospectus they sent me a couple of days ago.

 

[Bromley shrimp]

I got a letter this morning from them saying i didnt qualify for any shares

Not sure what you need to qualify. Does anyone know? My work pension is with them.

My pension's with them, so may also be angry having read your comments.

 

[Wondergull]

It says whether you qualify in the cover letter. Here's hoping you have more luck than i did!

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I only have an ISA with them - no letter for me today

Do I have a lazy postman or do I not qualify?

 

[timbha]

if you have any type of policy with them, even if it's in joint names, you will get one of two letters - one saying "tough you get nothing", and the other saying "you are entitled to shares" with a voting form that shows how many.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed but the way SL has been run for the last XX years I expect the whole process to be a shambles

 

[timbha]

I got a letter this morning from them saying i didnt qualify for any shares

Not sure what you need to qualify. Does anyone know? My work pension is with them.

if it's a works pension I guess the works pension scheme is the member, not you. You might be entitled to discounted SL shares later on if that's any consolation.

 

[timbha]

I only have an ISA with them - no letter for me today

Do I have a lazy postman or do I not qualify?

depends when you started the ISA and hopefully have a lazy postman - good luck!

 

[woodster]

the vote for demutualisation is not until the end of May. final decision not until the summer (sounds familiar)

if you have a pension with them you should be eligible for shares/cash.

i contacted them because i stopped paying in to my pension a little while ago (cash crisis!) and was worried i wouldnt be eligible for shares. they have told me i am. probably going to be worth F@@K All!

worth contacting them through the website and asking them if you are eligible.

 

[rool]

oooh I have a frozen pension with them, I keep getting letters but not sure if I will qualify or not as I either read or dreamt that non UK residents will not qualify.

Be nice if I did.

 

[timbha]

they have told me i am. probably going to be worth F@@K All!

minimum is 185 shares - worth about £500 - will pay for Season Ticket if you are lucky.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I have been allocated 838 shares could be at 290p = £2500 odd






If your all going to St Lucia, All going to St Lucia, all going to St Lucia clap youir hands

 

[Pevenseagull]

re the works pension thingamy - if it's a stakeholder scheme it almost certainly too recent to qualify

the big winners will probably be the oldies who've got long standing arrangements like 'with-profit' bonds

 

[Pevenseagull]

I use the term 'winners' whilst acknowledging that they've been losers in recent years as the bonus rates have been poor

 

[timbha]

I use the term 'winners' whilst acknowledging that they've been losers in recent years as the bonus rates have been poor

too bloody right........a couple of grand now and an endowment shortfall of much much more with the value of the policy increasing by less than the premiums paid.

 

[nail-Z]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed but the way SL has been run for the last XX years I expect the whole process to be a shambles

No chance. They've got the best team on the job - so it will be a resounding success. (eh, Bozza )

 

[timbha]

Merrill Lynch?

 

[Crisp]

Got a letter today saying I'll get 202 shares

 

[woodster]

bloody hell!!

will keep fingers crossed as have not had proposal pack yet.