Standard Life windfall news

larry_lurex

it would seem that i'm the only one who doesn't get anything. my policy is headed 'group personal pension one'.

still haven't figured out why ...

follyfoot

tarquincat wrote:

Obviously any money is better than nothing.

430 shares for a with profits from Feb 1994 £71 per week, £50,400 (with the obvious shortfall warning).

I think I really should have killed the policy last year, I have continues to pay in for this, when my policy achieves 2% per year, and I could be paying it off my mortgage instead.

The calculation seems to give much more credance to the age of the policy, rather than how much you are paying in.

One example below:

Aug/sept '88 - £45k endow, £55/month - approx £11,500 paid in - 821 shares

My one :

Feb '94 - £50k endow, £71/month - approx £10,500 paid in - 430 shares

A huge difference for similar investment amounts

I started paying into a standard life pension about £100/month from 1996. I stopped paying into it about 2 years ago. i have been offered 268 shares. i think the value of the pension was about £12000 the last time i checked.

Extractthecash

I only got 199

tripnip

Extractthecash wrote:

I only got 199

Did you invest £20 in 2003 or £1 million in 2004?

eyeopener

My figures.

509 shares allocated.

Personal Pension commenced in 1988. Value in 2006 £9000.00 ish

showders

I only got 186!! Is this a new low! Dont really understand any of this, think its for a pension one of my old employers took out for me. I was only with the company for 2 1/2 years from 2003 - 2005.

noahveil

tripnip wrote:

Did you invest £20 in 2003 or £1 million in 2004?

Eh ?

showders wrote:

I only got 186!! Is this a new low!

Most of the many "bagger specials"* also produced a 186 share allocation .

* min. one-off £20 SHP

hollydays

mortgage started 1987,matures 2012.Payed £59.98.shares 1036

Ted_Hutchinson

20 yr Endowment started feb 1988 monthly £8920 yr =shares 1118

tripnip

It's lucky that pet insurance is a relatively recent innovation or the Standard Life board would probably be about to award a majority stake in the company to a tortoise that invested a farthing in 1825.