If you're not interested in unit trusts, how about a personal equity plan?

The income is tax-free because your units are held in a personal equity plan.

The public can also apply for shares in the international offer through, for example, a personal equity plan.

Can you please tell me what the rules are as regards holding cash, as I have recently taken out a personal equity plan?

The company will be managed so that the ordinary shares will qualify for inclusion in a general personal equity plan.

Another advantage is that your new investment can be put into a personal equity plan, which means income and capital gains will then be tax-free.

The Chancellor also announced some minor changes to Personal Equity Plans.

It seems that personal equity plans are here to stay - even if not in the form that Nigel Lawson intended.

Personal equity plan.

PEP's a personal equity plan.

In the United Kingdom a Personal Equity Plan was a form of tax-privileged investment account.

It describes the schemes available, including regular savings plans, personal equity plans (PEP) an endowment policies.

Dividends on investments held in a Personal Equity Plan (PEP).

Notable among these are the Business Expansion Scheme, personal equity plans and the halving of stamp duty on share transactions.

Suitable investment vehicles over the medium to long term include tax exempt special savings accounts, personal equity plans, unit trusts and investment trusts.

It was originally known as Virgin Direct, and pioneered index tracking by launching a value Personal Equity Plan into the market.

Personal equity plans (PEPs) were first introduced in Nigel Lawson's 1986 Budget speech.

But to repay the loan, you pay monthly contributions to a Personal Equity Plan which is commonly known as a PEP.

Isas replaced personal equity plans (Peps) and tax exempt special savings accounts (Tessas), which closed to new investors in April 1999.

Personal Equity Plan (PEPs)

With much-ballyhoo, Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction, from December 1, of what it describes as the first 'risk-graded' Personal Equity Plan.

Commercial Union is also looking at top flight equities and/or unit trusts with its CU Quilter Personal Equity Plan.

PERSONAL Equity Plans (PEPs) are rolling relentlessly onto the market.

KEITH Hatfield, of News At Ten fame, is a great believer in Personal Equity Plans.

Articles in the Investors Chronicle, 20 March, and in the Financial Times, 25/26 July, detailed some of these special low-cost deals, which often include personal equity plans, too.