From: allang@private007.nospam.freeserve.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Nat. Savings U.K. Index-Linked Certs - Which Index ?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:21:10 +0000



Phil Hampson wrote:
> 
> The U.K. National Savings Certs have always in the past using the RPI
> Index for calculating the index portion of the interest payable on
> these investments
> I have just bought some of these ( not exciting but useful as a safe
> portion of my portfolio ) but have had some difficulty in confirmong
> which Index is now used.

FWIW, if you're doing your own calculations, IIRC, NS lag the RPI by 2
months.
I've never managed to come up with exactly the same indexation figures
as NS, but I'm not usually that far off.

Allan in North Yorks