Prudential offers more guarantees on life and pensions funds

22 June 2011 12:02 pm | By Joanne Ellul

Prudential is to reintroduce guarantee options on its growth fund and longer-term guarantees on its cautious fund.

The provider is adding a money-back capital guarantee with terms ranging from six to ten years to the PruFund growth, after guarantees were removed in 2009.

For the PruFund cautious, customers are offered the same range of terms in addition to the five-year guarantee that is already offered on the fund.

Prudential product director John Warbuton says: “Research we did in May this year showed that two-thirds of consumers feel uncomfortable with losing up to 10 per cent of their investment. Protecting capital loss is fundamental.”

He adds: “Every so often there is an event that reminds customers that we’re not out of the economic woods yet. Whether it is European sovereign debt issues or concern over nuclear reactors on the other side of the planet, people know global events have local repercussions. I believe it reinforces the desire to have some protection against the worse case scenario.”

Guarantee fees for the PruFund protected cautious funds are 1.05 per cent for five years, cascading down to 15 basis points for 10 years and for the PruFund protected growth fund 1.05 per cent for six years going down to 30 basis points for ten years.

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