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Index-linked Savings Certificates are inflation linked bonds from National Savings and Investments the state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. The bond terms are typically 2,3 or 5 years. The returns are linked to the RPI (not CPI) with an escalating premium on top. The escalation encourages bonds to be held to term with higher return over inflation in the later years. Bonds can be cashed in at any time. Bonds cashed in the first year sacrifice their increases to date and return only the initial deposit. Bonds cashed in beyond the first year yield the RPI indexing and premiums up to that month. Index-linked Savings Certificates are free from UK income tax making them relatively attractive to tax-payers, particularly higher rate tax-payers. They are backed by the Treasury of the UK Government so are considered to be safe deposits. The bonds come in issues. Each issue has a per person investment limit, currently 15000 pounds. The certificates used to be known as "Granny Bonds" because they were originally only available to savers who were over the retirement age. On 19 July 2010, due to high investment levels the certificates were withdrawn from general sale in order to keep investments within the financing target set by HM Treasury.〔(Changes to balance the interests of NS&I’s savers, taxpayers and the wider financial services marketplace )〕 After re-introduction this happened again on 7 September 2011.〔(NS&I WITHDRAWS SAVINGS CERTIFICATES FROM SALE. 7 September 2011 )〕 ==External links== * (National Savings and Investments Homepage ). * (Index-linked Savings Certificates Homepage ). * (Latest Issues ). * (Historic Interest Rates ). * (Past Issues ) from (InvestmentGuide ). * (UK Inflation ) and (Where to find RPI data ) from the Office for National Statistics. * (NS&I Index-Linked Savings: Q&A ) from The Daily Telegraph. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Index-linked Savings Certificates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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