If you're in the US, just make sure you sign into your brokerage account once or twice every year, to avoid your stocks going into escheat. Here's an episode of

If you're in the US, just make sure you sign into your brokerage account once or twice every year, to avoid your stocks going into escheat. Here's an episode of Planet Money which tells the tale of a man who bought some Amazon stock back in the day: (21 min podcast): https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat-show https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat... (transcript): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159