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There is a staggering £51.6bn of so-called “dormant assets” in the UK. The term refers to pensions, bank accounts and other financial products that have been forgotten by their owners and have languished, untouched, often for many years.
These eye-opening statistics reveal:
Although £51.6bn is a huge amount, it is a gradual result of everyday life getting in the way of personal administrative tasks for millions of savers.
Simply speaking, it is often difficult to keep track of everything and when juggling work, family, day-to-day chores and still making enough time to relax, it’s easy to forget about your first bank account, a child trust fund from a great grandparent or an old pension pot you were saving into several job moves ago. For example:
The problem for most people is that they are unaware of how much they might have in dormant assets and wouldn’t know how to start to get them back even if they knew where they were. So, it’s easy to see how this financial housekeeping can fall down the list of priorities.
Gretel is a new digital hub which helps customers reconnect lost bank accounts, pensions, savings and investments.
Gretel uses intelligent technology to see a customer’s past financial path, where they might have left money and then helps them reclaim it. Gretel is the only hub covering the entire financial services industry and is FREE for all consumers.