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Prizes range from £25 to £1,000,000 and (since December 2024) the odds of a £1 bond winning a prize in a given month are 22,000 to 1. [ 3 ] Investors can buy bonds at any time but they must be held for a whole calendar month before they qualify for a prize.
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Originally bonds could be purchased as in units of five Irish pounds, with a minimum purchase of £10. Today the unit price is 6.25 Euros (equivalent to IR£4.92 at the final fixed exchange rate) and a minimum purchase of €25 is required. In September 2009 the Prize Bond fund exceeded €1bn for the first time. [3]
All prizes are tax free and, with approximately 84 billion bonds issued, the chances of any one bond winning a prize for a given month are approximately 24500 to 1. However, if a bond wins a prize, that bond is not redeemed but remains 'in the pool' for all forthcoming draws (at least until the bond-holder decides to redeem it.).
Each month, millions of savers are entered into a prize draw to win cash prizes ranging from £25 to £1 million, with two millionaires made at every draw. Every £1 entered has a 22,000-to-one ...
Composition by country as of March 31, 2022 [1]; Country Market Weight % United States: 40.52 EGBI* 31.63 Japan: 16.03 United Kingdom: 4.55 Others: 7.28 * EGBI (FTSE EMU Government Bond Index) consists of EMU-participating countries that meet the WGBI criteria for market inclusion: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain