Complex asset management

Long-term planning but in line with demand If you earn money, you have to learn how to handle it. On the one hand, it is important to be able to cover the needs of daily life and, on the other, to ensure long-term financial stability. Satisfying the basic needs of a human being is only […]

Investment in North America

Why Canada is attractive for investors The economic and political situation in Europe, as well as the issues of climate change and peace, are prompting more and more people to diversify their assets. Whereas in the past people had invested their assets classically in real estate and shares in Germany, there is a clear trend […]

Alternative investments

How to protect your assets Where to put all that money? An admittedly somewhat gloating question that will certainly only concern a portion of our readership, but could be all the more valuable for them. Cash is dead, long live cash. Not only since the current inflation (2022) of more than 7%, we are noticing […]

Lawyer for investment law in Munich

Investment law: Ask at the right time The investor protector Heinz Gerlach (*1945, +2010) once said that the typical investor at the regulars’ table only has three questions: First question: The investor waves various prospectus documents and asks “Is that something?”Second question: “And what’s the best?”Third question (usually after months or years): “What is the […]

Retirement provision and asset planning

Private pension provision affects us all While 20 years ago bottle collecting pensioners were a rare sight on Germany’s streets, today they are already part of the everyday street scene. The results of a survey of the Deutsche Bank clearly show that already every second German citizenhas anxiety about this, no longer be able to […]

Commentary: When private and occupational pensions cut provision

Survivors rub their eyes when the survivors’ pension of the German Pension Insurance (DRV) is reduced to zero after three months. Marriages entered into after 2002 or those where both spouses were born after 1962 are affected by this provision.   In these cases, 40 percent of the additional net income is offset, i.e. deducted […]

Optimising the statutory survivor’s pension

Survivors rub their eyes when the survivors’ pension of the German Pension Insurance (DRV) is reduced to zero after three months. This regulation – which was last tightened in 2002 – affects marriages entered into after 2002 or those where both spouses were born after 1962. Then 40% of the additional net income is offset, […]

The profession and remuneration of finance and insurance brokers in transition due to regulation

Selected challenges and megatrends in financial services distribution   The image of financial services sales of credit institutions and insurers has been suffering for years, especially due to TV documentaries about dubious business models or manipulation of interest rates, share prices and commodity prices. Product providers are also in the pillory, for example when up […]

Loss of purchasing power, demographics and low interest rates destroy supply dreams

“The safest thing about the state pension is the pension gap.” (André Kostolany) If we compare the prospects of past and present pensioners with those of future generations of pensioners, we find that over the decades the legislator has roughly halved the provision via the German Pension Insurance Federation (DRV) in relation to the last […]

Buying up used life insurance policies. What’s legal, what’s illegal?

The majority of long-term life insurance policies are terminated before the scheduled end of the contract for a variety of reasons. Buyers of such “used” life insurance policies may use different business models, most of which are legal. However, the Federal Supervisory Office for Financial Services (BaFin) has banned some business models.   First of […]