0 used to describe a type of investment, usually offered in the UK by a life insurance company, in which the payments are linked to individual shares within a fund:
Nor is the credit exposure automatically extinguished by unit-linked securitization of the scheme, where this path is followed.
The mismatching risk within unit-linked products originates from the possibility that the investment portfolio differs from the set of assets whose performance determines the unit value.
The halfway house of unit trusts, investment trusts, unit-linked funds through insurance are a good introduction to saving, particularly when they are coupled with protection.
However, in the long term, we need to educate the public about the risks inherent in relying too heavily on unit-linked policies.
This review will include information required by those investing in unit-linked personal pension plans.
We are concerned with unit-linked insurance policies and not those policies with or without profits.
Societies acting as independent intermediaries which wish to offer their own investment products—that is, unit-linked personal pensions—will have to offer their products through subsidiaries.
Policies are typically traditional with-profits or unit-linked (including those with unitised with-profits funds).
