designated investment
- (1) a security or a contractually-based investment112 (other than a funeral plan contract and a right to or interest in a funeral plan contract), that is, any of the following investments, specified in Part III of the Regulated Activities Order (Specified Investments):106
- (a) life policy (subset of article 75 (Contracts of insurance));
- (b) share (article 76);
- (c) debenture (article 77);
- (ca) alternative debenture (article 77A);
- (d) government and public security (article 78);
- (e) warrant (article 79);
- (f) certificate representing certain securities (article 80);
- (g) unit (article 81);
- (h) stakeholder pension scheme (article 82(1))
- (ha) personal pension scheme (article 82(2));
- (hab) pension scheme which provides safeguarded benefits (article 82(3)) (but only in relation to advising on conversion or transfer of pension benefits);117
- (hb) [deleted]124 112
- (hc) emissions allowance (article 82B);112
- (i) option (article 83); for the purposes of the permission regime, this is sub-divided into:
- (i) option (excluding a commodity option and an option on a commodity future);
- (ii) commodity option and option on a commodity future;
- (j) future (article 84); for the purposes of the permission regime, this is sub-divided into:
- (i) future (excluding a commodity future and a rolling spot forex contract);
- (ii) commodity future;
- (iii) rolling spot forex contract;
- (k) contract for differences (article 85); for the purposes of the permission regime, this is sub-divided into:
- (i) contract for differences (excluding a spread bet and a rolling spot forex contract);
- (ii) spread bet;
- (iii) rolling spot forex contract;
- (iv) binary bet;115
- (l) rights to or interests in investments in (a) to (k) (article 89);106
- (2) a P2P agreement; and106
- (3) a long-term care insurance contract which is a pure protection contract.106
- (4) (in COLL) in addition and to the extent it does not fall within (1), a security or a contractually-based investment which would have been within the definition of “designated investment” in the FCA Handbook immediately before IP completion day137.124