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Got a parent with IAG shares held in Computershare. Dividends are paid straight to the bank account, but the last one hasn't been received yet. We've just done a live chat on the Computershare web site, and they say the dividend is not due until the 12th Dec. Anyone else have a holding via Computerhare?

Interactive Investor: Dividend and sale proceeds received in account. Not able to withdraw either yet, but that's the norm with ii, always have to wait until the following day to withdraw.

Equiniti Shareview: Dividend received in bank account, no sale proceeds yet.

Hoping for some help...

My Mum has held Royal Mail shares for many years, in two forms...

1. Interactive Investor. She's received a corporate action notification for these, which she has to respond to by 20th August. No problem.

2. Physical share certificates. She can manage these via the Equiniti Shareview online service, but we can't find any corporate action on there to accept the offer. Instead, she's received paperwork from Equiniti which includes an acceptance form and a prepaid envelope to return the form and her share certificates if she accepts the offer. My first query is that all her certificates are "Royal Mail" certificates, not IDS, so will these be accepted if she returns them? Second, I think that the form and certificates have to be returned by 25th August, but from what I read here, that date is likely to be extended, with an announcement by early next week at the latest. So, if she wants to accept, should she wait until next week to see if the dates are extended?

I own these in Interactive Investor and Hargreaves, with automatic dividend re-investment turned on.

In ii, after the change in corporate structure in Jan, and the shares becoming DI (depository interest), the March dividend wasn't re-invested automatically, so I had to use the dividend to make a normal share purchase.

This week's dividend will be my first received in HL, does anyone know if the dividend will be re-invested automatically by HL?

TinkerT, I'm hoping as well.
I only have a small holding, but if I had £100k of Aviva and they were now showing at ~£75k and there were no B shares listed to show the 'missing' ~£25k, I'd be onto the broker asap telling them to sort it out. If HL can do it why can't the others?

Surely it make sense for every broker to show Aviva holders the number of B shares they're entitled to, and the value of those shares. If they don't do that, their system will show an incorrect value for your portfolio because it doesn't include the cash you're going to get for the B shares. I can imagine there were some worried holders who checked their portfolio on Monday morning and saw a drop in the value, especially those with big holdings in Aviva.

My Aviva shares are in AJ Bell. The share count dropped yesterday by the appropriate amount for the consolidation, but I can't see the B shares anywhere. Should they be visible in the account?

It wouldn't surprise me if the dividends were increased - the results said "at least 235 pence per share" for the next two years, which gives scope for an increase. The company is awash with cash, and the reductions in the incentive plan for some of the directors could encourage them to increase the dividend, as they all have chunky holdings.