– What are the scenarios of settlement in insurance due to low interest rates ? – Customers of life insurers are shaken: on 16.12.2014, the business press reported that a Swiss life insurer had now filed for insolvency, and had become a victim of low interest rates. The 13,000 policies were taken over by […]
The wave of insolvencies is coming. What is to be considered thereby and how self-employed persons and GmbH managing directors could lose also the old age pension, explain the examined financial and investment advisor and banker Dr. Johannes Fiala and the expert for insurance mathematics Peter A. Schramm. In the so-called Corona crisis, the […]
– How self-employed persons and GmbH managing directors also lose their pension provision ? – In the so-called Corona crisis, the state helps, for example by providing tax relief – such as reducing advance payments and deferral of payments upon application. This applies to income tax, corporate income tax and value added tax, but not […]
Insolvency creditors normally have to register their claims in the table and can immediately write off up to more than 90%. The rate is often just above zero. Nevertheless, there are numerous exceptions to the rule of how to get your money despite the insolvency of the debtor. Maintenance obligations and intentional tort […]
– New BGH ruling: How the insolvency administrator achieves confiscation and immediate realisation The most common form of company pension scheme (bAV) for the managing partners is the pension commitment. A new ruling by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH ruling of 18 July 2013, file no. IX ZR 219/11) opens up further possibilities […]
Assets are protected from the insolvency administrator – in the event of death the situation is different: The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 08.12.2016, ref. IX ZR 257/15) ruled that the general and insolvency-independent waiver of surrender of the (residual) assets of a provident fund (UK) for occupational pension provision (bAV) can be […]
“Live today – save later” – this is often the motto when an annuity insurance policy is to be sold for a one-off payment. Some insurers offer this to their customers due to an emergency situation even if there is no longer a contractual legal claim to it after the start of the pension. On […]
The basic provisions granted by the legislator as a protective shield for old-age provision are not comprehensive. The approach of professional asset protection starts with the consideration of an early division of assets. By separating the professional risks within the framework of a corporation from the private assets, a liability block is created quite legally. […]
Differences in family provision and succession arrangements at home and abroad The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled in its judgment of 27 September 2012 (Case IX ZR 15/12) that the granting of an irrevocable subscription right – solely for the payment of a life insurance policy in the event of death – is […]
DIE WELT of August 03, 2005, page 1 reports: A recent study by the German Institute for Retirement Provision (DIA) reveals that the statutory pension is no longer sufficient. However, almost 60 percent of all households do not make sufficient provision for their old age. Nearly one third of the population is even threatened […]
