Georgeson will help you engage with their lost shareholders

It is estimated that UK companies hold in excess of £3 billion in unclaimed shareholder assets.  These assets usually go unclaimed because the company has lost contact with its shareholders.   The most common reason for this is that the shareholder moves address and does not notify the company or its registrar, or they die and their estate is left unaware of the shareholding.

These “gone away” shareholders are the most vulnerable targets for shareholder identity fraud, as there is no opportunity for the registrar to verify any change to their circumstances at a current registered address.

Our Shareholder Assets Service can reunite as many as 75% of your beneficiaries with their rightful assets – at little or no cost to you.  Our programme will:

• Identify and locate your actual number of “gone away” shareholders
• Enable you to re-engage you with your shareholders
• Return any unclaimed assets to your shareholders or estates

By using our programme, you will be demonstrating good due diligence by enabling beneficiaries to take advantage of their assets, whilst minimising the risk of fraud. In addition, you can save time and money by reactivating an existing account, rather than finding a new customer.

Why Georgeson?

We have a proven track record in reuniting shareholders with their assets.  See our Case Study of how we worked with Aviva to reunite over 35,000 people with their assets in just 8 months.

Next steps

For more information on our asset reunification services and solutions contact our team at assetreunification@georgeson.com or your local office.