Chamber professionals expect the abandonment of the expectancy procedure in the pension funds

– Why the capital market with compound interest effect does not allow us to expect higher pensions –   For years, insiders have been reporting difficulties in the pension funds in generating the promised returns to finance pensions. While the management of a Versorgungskammer used to pat themselves on the back year after year because […]

Retirement planning with annuity purchase instead of life insurance or sovereign wealth funds with cash cover

– How the state can ensure the efficiency of retirement planning for the middle class –   After 31 years of work, average earners will only receive a basic pension (social welfare level, with up to less than 758 euros per month) – low earners would have to work 63 years in social security for […]

Pension funds give cause for concern

Risks for doctors, notaries, tax consultants, lawyers, dentists, architects and auditors Around 90 pension funds, also known as pension chambers, are public corporations that collect funds from their “compulsory members” for the au au of a funded pension scheme. Past and foreseeable pension cuts challenge the system. No exit by refusal to pay The Higher […]

Risk for doctors: Significantly lower pensions from pension funds

Around 90 pension funds, also known as pension chambers, are public corporations that collect funds from their “compulsory members” to build up a funded pension scheme. But the pension cuts that have already been decided, as well as those that are foreseeable in the future, call the system into question. However, “withdrawal” is not an […]

Drying up of life insurance – too few investment options for too much money

– Why life insurance has outlived its usefulness as a capital accumulation vehicle –   Wim Duisenberg, ex-president of the ECB, when asked how he invests his money: “Personally, I’m in the fortunate position of having no reserves.”   Statistically, up to more than 80 million German citizens own more than one life insurance policy. […]

Insurance mediation as commercial fraud

– How clueless facilitators and training managers go straight to jail instead of through LOS -.   On 05.11.2014, the Central Criminal Investigation Service Lüneburg arrested two insurance brokers for commercial fraud. The intermediaries induced their customers to terminate existing annuity and life insurance policies in order to subsequently take out new insurance policies that […]

Finance and risk control

More wealth in a planned and controlled manner The own assets in a planned and future-oriented management as well as value-enhancing and risk-optimized investment requires the highest degree of Knowledge and time. Not everyone who has achieved a certain level of wealth is also a financial or controlling expert , so it is advisable to […]

Every retirement plan on one leg is dangerous

Are state parliamentarians threatened with poverty in old age? Trade union pension experts complained in 2018 that members of a state parliament received 3.675% p.a. of their diets as a pension under the pension law in force until 2007, with a calculated income of EUR 8,220 after five years, i.e. EUR 1,510 as a pension. […]

Reversal of the burden of proof in case of inadequate documentation

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 13 November 2014, Ref. III ZR 544/13) has recently ruled that failure to comply with the insurance agent’s duty of documentation in accordance with § 61 Para. 1 sentence 2, § 62 of the German Insurance Contract Act (VVG) may lead to a shift in the burden […]

Protocols should ensure high quality advice

The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH, ruling of 13.11.2014, Ref. III ZR 544/13) has recently decided that the failure of the insurance broker to comply with the documentation obligation under Section 61 (1) of the German Insurance Supervision Act (Versicherungsvermittler). 1 sentence 2, § 62 of the German Insurance Contract Act (VVG) may lead to a shift in […]