Starting from the fact that in the Republic of Serbia life insurance is in the development phase, the author points to the significance of life insurance in national law, as a source of (additional) social security of citizens. Life insurance, as one of the main pillars of insurance in general, is a protection plan that provides beneficiaries in the event of unforeseen events in the form of insured risks covered by a life insurance policy. The work essentially determines the life insurance topic, namely the part relating to the life insurance contract linked to units of investment funds, a type of life insurance contract whose important characteristic is the connection between the classic life insurance and savings contracts in investment f...