RL360 Protected Lifestyle - External Fund Range

The external fund range was added to Protected Lifestyle in December 2014 to offer new investment opportunities outside of the internal protected fund range. 

Like our new business protection policy, LifePlan, the external range available to Protected Lifestyle has to operate within a specified volatility ratio. This attempts to marry steady growth with above inflation returns, and whilst there are no performance guarantees, we believe these funds significantly enhance the Protected Lifestyle proposition for existing clients.

What the external range offers...

No mirror funds

The range offers 50+ direct funds (100+ when you factor in alternative currency variants) carefully selected from leading fund houses, denominated in EUR, GBP and USD.

Daily access

All funds are daily priced and daily traded allowing your client's to change their selection at any time.

Choice

There's a mix of asset classes to choose from including currency/money market, fixed interest, equity, global managed, hedge/structured products and Islamic, providing extensive options to diversify policy portfolios.

Risk Ratings

Funds risk rated between 1 & 7 (1 being low, 7 being high), helping you to match funds with your client's attitude to risk.

Investment materials

There's our Fund Guide, Fund Performance Bulletin and Factsheets, all updated regularly to provide you and your client with up to date details of the options available and how they are performing. 

And don't forget the interactive fund centre for more in-depth analysis and daily monitoring of performance of all the funds available to Protected Lifestyle.

Flexibility

Your clients can hold a combination of both the external and internal funds available to Protected Lifestyle, including any mix of currency, even if this is a different currency to their plan. Where this option is taken, exchange rates will apply to value the funds in their plan currency.

Fund charges

There is a bid/offer spread on the external fund range (with the exception of the GBP/USD/EUR Cash Funds) for purchases ands switches. This means units are bought at the offer price, and are valued in a policy at the bid price. The bid price is 2.5% lower than the offer price. There is no bid/offer spread on the GBP/USD/EUR Cash Funds. 

External fund Annual Management Charges (applied by the fund manager and already included within the fund price) range from 0.2% up to 2% depending on the fund type. 

Other than the bid/offer spread, clients can move freely between external funds without any switching charges or custodian fees applying. And your clients can also hold funds that are denominated in a different currency to their policy currency, if required, something which is not possible with the internal protected funds. 

Download the Protection Fund Guide now for the latest information about the available range.