What are the sources of unclaimed financial assets?

• Dormant bank accounts.
• Uncollected pay cheques.
• Secret savings
• Death.
• Utility deposit not collected i.e. Electricity, Water, Telephone,
• Abandoned pensions
• Un cashed premiums and treasury bonds
• Abandoned Shares and dividends
• Mutual funds
• Secretly taken or forgotten life insurance policies
• Emigration
• Collapse or change in corporate structures, such as with mergers, acquisitions
• Change of name, address or the change in the national postal address system.
• Missing records and no tracking mechanism.
• Previously, no requirement to holding institutions to declare assets as unclaimed