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A few people have asked how to get their shares back in there ISA. For those that are unsure, If you want to keep hold of your shares or not lose money then you need to be very careful!
If your broker is offering Bed & ISA then ask what kind of protection they are able to offer to ensure your shares remain yours. When a Bed & ISA takes place your shares are sold and immediately bought back again. With HL they explain that the shares are effectively held safe whilst in transition. I'm not sure how other brokers work. You don't want to lose your shares if the broker can't buy them back at the same or similar price (or not at all!) due to buying demand on the day.
Ask about the fee (or equivalent cost if you end up having shares deducted to cover the fee).
Check that you won't be paying the full spread to buy the shares back in your ISA. HL charged me around £50 worth of shares for a Bed & ISA for which the spread would have been several hundred. Check in advance.
Biggest risk could be a DIY Bed & ISA.
If you sell your shares yourself it will take a few working days to get that money into your ISA. This is because the money showing in your account from shares you sell isn't actually there until 2 days later (your broker makes it available to use to buy more shares, but it's not actually there so you can't transfer it - I assume this is typical for all brokers?). Those 2 to 3 days could mean losing out on a couple of hundred % on a newly listed share with possible news incoming.
Another option is to transfer additional money into your ISA to buy on the day, and then sell from your trading account afterwards. Great if you have the money to free up temporarily.
With a DIY Bed & ISA you will be paying the spread which might be very big on day 1. Check what you can buy and sell at before doing this and decide if you're happy with the cost difference.
It might not be easy to buy or sell on the day (too much demand to buy or too many sellers).
If you manage to buy in your ISA before selling from your trading account and the price then goes up then great as you have twice as many shares and you can sell your trading account shares at a profit and cover the spread.
But if the share price drops after you've bought in your ISA and you can't get a quote to sell then you'll be losing on two lots of shares plus the spread by the time you have a sell quote to offload your trading account shares.
For me I'll be using a fresh pot of money in my ISA to buy CIZ if the price is right and if the spread isn't crazy big. I'll decide later what to do with my shares in my trading account.
I hope that's useful to anyone that was unsure.