Finding old shares

[didds]

A very long time ago (very early 2000s, even late 90s) I bought about £50 of shares in a small bio-tech company.
I can't find any trace/notes of that dealing now - the broker I used, or even the name of the blinking company ... I'd forgotten about iot for literally over a decade !

Is there any obvious path to finding out how/where/what I own (I don;t suppose for one moment they are worth anything today!). I have nothing at home to "advise" (old emails, scraps of paper in drawers etc). I don;t get certificates each year etc - it would have been a totally managed service etc


didds

[k333]

Do you have a shareview login? It might be worth checking. I logged in for the first time in many years, to find skeleton details of some very old shareholdings, which were not there before.

- K

[didds]

is shareview just a broker - ort some magical site that scours "something" and reports on who owns what and where?

(I don;t have a shareview login, no)

didds

[BobbyD]

is shareview just a broker - ort some magical site that scours "something" and reports on who owns what and where?

(I don;t have a shareview login, no)

didds

It's the front end of Equiniti, the problem being it won't show shares held in nominee. You can register to see your holdings. the first question they ask being what coimpany you are looking for. Does anything in the list look familliar? https://www-uk.computershare.com/invest ... ration.asp

If you think you bought through a traditional broker you might also try https://www.computershare.com/uk

Although you'd probably get annual statements of the holdings if that were the case.

If it was nominee I guess you'd need to work out which broker you have opened an account with and forgotten about.

[dionaeamuscipula]

A very long time ago (very early 2000s, even late 90s) I bought about £50 of shares in a small bio-tech company.
I can't find any trace/notes of that dealing now - the broker I used, or even the name of the blinking company ... I'd forgotten about iot for literally over a decade !

Is there any obvious path to finding out how/where/what I own (I don;t suppose for one moment they are worth anything today!). I have nothing at home to "advise" (old emails, scraps of paper in drawers etc). I don;t get certificates each year etc - it would have been a totally managed service etc


didds

Try Link Asset Services (formerly Capita Registrars and before that IRG). They act as registrars for about 60% of listed companies. Let them know your current and any previous addresses in the period since you might have bought. Contact details are on their website, their telephone line is 14p a minute or something, but they also have an e-mail address.

Can you remember what the small bio did? Almost no small listed biotech businesses from the 90s/2000s still exist in their original form, but as I have an interest in the sector I might recognise a description. I owned small holdings in companies like Alizyme and Medisys.

DM

[GoSeigen]

A very long time ago (very early 2000s, even late 90s) I bought about £50 of shares in a small bio-tech company.
I can't find any trace/notes of that dealing now - the broker I used, or even the name of the blinking company ... I'd forgotten about iot for literally over a decade !

Is there any obvious path to finding out how/where/what I own (I don;t suppose for one moment they are worth anything today!). I have nothing at home to "advise" (old emails, scraps of paper in drawers etc). I don;t get certificates each year etc - it would have been a totally managed service etc
didds

Did you post about them on any BB?

GS

[didds]

If I did post about them, i woulnd;t know which one now either...

didds