Facts About Premium Bonds

Premium bonds marked their fiftieth anniversary in November 2006. They were the most popular form of investment in British history. Premium Bonds are bought and owned by over 40% of the population of Great Britain. When traditional investments give a little back in time, Premium Bonds do not return at all, but give the investor a chance to win a monthly lottery. This strategy popular investment made millionaires many British citizens and at the same time provided that investors n have not won a secure place to save money and help the national treasury. They have the opportunity to remove yourself from the money at any time without loss. Here are some bizarre facts that surround these popular bonds.

From conception until in the late years there was even a beauty contest to celebrate the premium bonds program. L national savings and agency, the department in charge of the program bonds, held an annual Miss Premium Bond competition in which employees of the agency came during the annual Sports and Social Club Public Service Day which s is held in Lytham St. Annes. Like ordinary beauty pageant, contestants should go down the walkway to flaunt their looks and style. They smile politely to the judges and then answer questions related to the pageant. No other enterprise investment has already sponsored such an event.

Similar to the U.S. lottery, there were some strange statistics from the program. Similarities in the statistics include that Hannah is the name most frequently who won the lottery bond premium and Sean was the name most frequently male. The ten best players were all women except one. Some winners n have not even claim their prize. There is a price for unclaimed £ 25,000 waiting patiently for the owner to claim. There are also over 500 thousand pounds stored in agency just waiting for someone one comes to take him home.

There are even conspiracy theories that program call premium bond a scam. There are people who cash in their bonds and buy new ones so that they have modern numbers. Already bought the first bond is still in the system, but these people believe that only new numbers will be generated by the generating machine ERNIE the famous number.

D other conspiracy theorists have come up with ideas that the machine is damaged the region of Great Britain winners will be chosen from. A man in Wales even said that the bonds were rigged because Wales had the fewest amount of winners. What there has not done, it is that fewer people in Wales bought premium bonds and that naturally the statistics would support a larger population d purchase.

As n there are winners and losers. You can not really loose because the bonds are cashed in the same amount that they were purchased. One man said that there had never won in twenty years. He claims that he even stopped looking at the monthly figures. It could be the one of those n has never claimed that over £ 500 000 n have never claimed.