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Dog of an old pension - shoot it or let it lie?

gadgetmind · 2011-03-26 18:05:58

Back in the very early 80s, I started a "Hill Samuel Life Personal Pension" and lobbed a couple of hundred quid a month into it for a couple of years. I made it paid up in August 1993 due to job changes and I have a statement here from August 1994 that shows - Managed Units A, 302.825 @ 358.50 = £1085.63 Managed Units B,…

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gadgetmind Posts: 11,130 Forumite

10 April 2011 at 3:41PM

This one had an even happier ending. The final transfer value with just a few pence short of £3k and it's now (fairly!) safely nestled in my FP pension account. Hopefully, this should sail past £4k in a decade, so should trounce what it would have been worth if left with Abbey Life.

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