No yield tuning by selling the pension and life insurance in the secondary market?

– What insurance customers should be aware of before or after they terminate –   Countless brokers and advisors live from new business. So there is nothing more obvious than to persuade customers to cancel or sell their existing investments, especially life insurance policies. However, general statements about pension (RV) and life insurance (LV) policies […]

Setting up a multi-level marketing organization is not exempt from sales tax

In its ruling of 3 August 2017 (Ref. V R 19/16), the Federal Court of Finance (BFH) decided that the establishment of a structured sales organisation is not exempt from VAT. In principle, this not only applies to structured sales organisations and other distribution companies and pools, but also to insurance intermediaries (agents), insurance brokers […]

Occupational pension provision: The imperative of equal value – void occupational pension provision?

bAV-Handelsblatt Forum: Invalidity of deferred compensation Dr.Reinecke, chairman of the pension senate at the Federal Labour Court (BAG), has dropped the bomb. Its core statement is that contracts for the implementation of occupational pension schemes can be (partially) null and void. Insurance intermediaries are surprised – have they been brokering ineffective contracts for years? The […]

Risk Time value account

Financial product distributors are increasingly promoting working time accounts and the models of partial retirement. The financial intermediaries are mostly concerned with commissions: Few brokers are aware of the civil and criminal liability risks. A time value account is not an implementation method of the company pension scheme. Rather, it is a matter of a […]

Liability traps with the time value account

Time value accounts and the models of partial retirement are paid by the Financial sales increasingly advertised. The financial intermediaries it’s mostly about commissions: The fewest intermediaries know about the civil and criminal law Liability risks for fiscal Consultants and the management the employer. In order to create an implementation channel for the company pension […]

Surrender value of British policies often below statutory minimum surrender value – additional claims in the multi-digit millions possible

Guarantees with British people usually only at expiration British with-profits policies provide for lower guarantees than the endowment policies offered by German life insurers. These guarantees are also based on the scheduled expiry date and therefore do not usually apply in the event of early termination or partial termination (partial withdrawals). British life insurers invest […]

Surrender values of British policies often below statutory minimum surrender value

Additional claims in the multi-digit millions possible Dr. Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), Mediator (Univ.), MBA Financial Services (Univ. Wales), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), Lecturer for Civil Law and Insurance Law (Univ. of Cooperative Education), Bankkaufmann Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm, actuary DAV, expert for actuarial mathematics, publicly appointed and sworn by the […]

Surrender values of British policies often below statutory minimum surrender value

Additional claims in the multi-digit millions possible Guarantees with British usually not until the expiration British with-profits policies see lower guarantees than those provided by offered by German life insurers Endowment life insurance. These guarantees are also based on the scheduled expiry date and shall apply therefore usually not in the case of premature Termination […]

Life insurance: calculation of surrender value

debts life insurance policies New billing and additional payment The BGH judgements of 12.10.2005 (Az. IV ZR 162/03, 177/03, 245/03) and the Constitutional Court with its decision of 26.07.2005 (file no. 1 BvR 80/95) massively influence the contracts of the Life insurers and the Billing practice for an existing Life Insurance. The BGH is in […]

Life insurance: calculation of surrender value

Life insurance: calculation of surrender value Life insurance companies owe re-bill and back pay – see also article on surrender value of life insurance policies The BGH judgements of 12.10.2005 (Ref. IV ZR 162/03, 177/03, 245/03) and the Constitutional Court with its decision of 26.07.2005 (Ref. 1 BvR 80/95) have a massive influence on the […]