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Warrants

A security that offers the owner the right to purchase the *shares* of a company at a fixed date, usually at a fixed price.

With profits

A with-profits fund is a *pooled* insurance product. With-profits funds pool together premiums paid by a number of investors, which the insurance company then invests in a very wide range of *assets*.  (See "*Unit-linked policies*").