The Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) apparently has a heart for stock market investors. According to its judgment – Az. IX R 21/04 – investors can offset their losses from speculative transactions against profits – for all years since 1999. The set-off of the losses does not fail also because of the fact that for […]
– When government subsidies and legal requirements later become a yield trap – Increasing periods of employment in the low-wage sector or as a Hartz IV recipient reduce the prospects of the subsistence minimum in working life as well as later as a pensioner. While a fine may not affect the garnishment-free income, Hartz […]
– Which is why this also applies to the statutory pension as well as private pension insurances -. A study by the Free University of Berlin dated 15 June 2015 describes the distribution effects of old-age pensions on different population groups. On the other hand, an expert of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) thinks […]
– How insurers use ineffective terms and conditions and sales lies to cancel contracts – New ruling by the Federal Court of Justice confirms general terminability The Federal Court of Justice (BGH judgement of 01.12.2011, ref. IX ZR 79/11) recently ruled: The saved capital in Rürup contracts (also known as basic pensions) is generally not […]
– How insurers’ lies are believed and harm the middle class by the millions – No security for imputation due to Hartz IV and other social benefits In an admirable act of lobbying, life insurers have succeeded in persuading intermediaries, customers and even the Federal Employment Agency that the capital saved for Rürup pensions would […]
– Credit institutions are liable for failure in real estate financing duration until retirement age – Credit institutions often finance real estate in the foreseeable knowledge that the property will not be paid off by the time the borrower retires. If a failure of the financing and thus a forced sale of the property […]
If the company pension does not deliver what you were promised Every day we learn from politicians and the media that the statutory pension will at some point not be sufficient to maintain the accustomed standard of living in life after a professional career. Those of us who have taken out a company pension in […]
More than ever before, every German citizen is responsible for his or her own retirement provision. The benefits of the statutory pension are by far not sufficient to even come close to maintaining the accustomed standard of living at retirement age. Even the Retirement Assets Act (AVmG) passed on 11 May 2001 is only […]
– Why is it that no one is harmed? – Reduction of pensions by pension funds and pension institutions Expectations regarding the level of benefits at pension institutions (PA) and pension funds (PK) have been steadily and foreseeably clouding over for many years. Section 314 of the Insurance Supervision Act (VAG) allows the Financial […]
– Obligation of the insurance broker to advise in the case of brokering in the secondary market for life insurance policies – An insurance broker was ordered to pay damages by the Higher Regional Court of Dresden (OLG, ruling of 29 February 2019, file no. 4 U 942/17) because he had not informed the policyholder […]
