Buying and selling shares

You can buy or sell shares through our share dealing service, called Shareview Dealing, which allows you to buy and sell shares held in a Corporate Sponsored Nominee account or in a certificated format using our online service or by calling 03456 037 037, to use this service you must be a UK resident.

If you want to sell shares you will need your share certificate or Corporate Sponsored Nominee account number with you. If you want to buy shares you will need your debit card to pay for the transaction.

If you have shares in a Corporate Sponsored Nominee scheme, please check the relevant terms and conditions before selling as you may need to use a nominated dealing service applicable to that Corporate Sponsored Nominee.

Equiniti also offers two other trading options, Investment Account and ISA, where we hold the shares electronically for you. This means that you do not have to hold share certificates, which ensures that your shares are always safe. It also speeds up the dealing process as you do not have to forward share certificates to us to make a trade and there are no transfer forms to sign. We take care of all the administration and paperwork so that you can focus on your investment decisions.

Click here for details of the EQi Dealing Account

Click here for details of the EQi Flexible Shares ISA

The value of shares and the income, if any, from them can go down as well as up.

If you have bought or sold securities through a stockbroker or share dealing service, your broker will automatically send us instructions to amend our records on the appropriate date. This is the date on which shares and money are exchanged in the market and is known as the 'settlement date'. The contract note sent to you by your broker will show the settlement date and this is when our records are usually updated.

Depending on the time the deal is processed, it may take a day or so for the new details to be displayed on Shareview. If the correct information is still not shown after this time, you should speak to your broker to confirm that the trade has been settled.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has introduced an intraday auction which means the continuous trading of shares will be paused for around two minutes at 12:00pm every day. This may result in the failure to get a quote for certain shares around that time. If this occurs, we would suggest attempting to trade again after 12:02pm, where a quote should become available again.

For further details of LSE’s intraday auction, please click here.

Shareview Dealing monitor limit orders during UK stock market opening times with the exception of the first 3 minutes of market opening. At this time, for some stocks the bid/offer spread can be very wide and unrepresentative of true market conditions.

GBX - which is the currency abbreviation for UK Sterling in Pence.