The real estate GmbH as a supposedly clever tax saving idea

– Why smart private investors should give it a wide berth? – But woe, woe, woe! When I look at the end!!! (Wilhelm Busch, 1865)   Asset-managing LLCs are among the top topics of numerous podcasts penned by experts and professors. This construction is advertised, for example, with the fact that only 15% corporate income […]

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 […]

Asset management: creative financial distribution without a licence and without financial supervision

– Products and concepts for formerly licensed intermediaries, brokers, tipsters and advisors –   Investors lose up to more than €40 billion every year because they did not really understand the financial products sold to them – or were the victim of fraud. It is typical that even formerly unsuspicious competence bearers or their financial […]

Asset Management

Those who want to know that their private assets, those of a foundation or even of an institution are in good hands and who themselves have little understanding of capital preservationand protection, can assign this task to a so-called asset manager. Asset management, a professional title that is largely unprotectedorunregulated in Germany, defines a service […]

When real estate becomes junk real estate

How do banks and insurance companies finance usuriously overpriced real estate? Scrap real estate is a topic for up to more than two million affected investors. The Investors’ Council says: “Only invest in investments that you understand yourself”. This applies to the timing of investments and the ongoing monitoring of capital investments. More often, experts […]

Additional qualification clairvoyance: A must for every real estate agent

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 10.03.2016, file no. I ZR 147/14) once again wrote into the insurance brokers’ logbook how comprehensive their advice must be. The usual questionnaires, including any data retrieval via the Internet, are insufficient. If, in the event of a claim, the insurer (BoD) does not pay or pays […]

Permits for guardianship of minors, care and administration of the estate

Permits for guardianship of minors, care and administration of the estate Introduction A legal guardian can be appointed for an adult: Legal guardianship leads to legal guardianship, § 1902. The guardianship court may appoint a voluntary guardian (lay guardian) or a professional guardian. The appointment of a suitable volunteer supervisor is a priority. The volunteer […]

Mistakes and pitfalls in real estate financing

Unsound proposals by intermediaries and financial houses for investors and builders In the last three decades, around one million German citizens have had a de facto junk property sold to them as an investment, primarily as a retirement provision. Very few are actually a case for the wrecking ball or the demolition expert, because they […]

Mistakes and pitfalls in real estate financing

Risks:  Unsound proposals of the mediators and finance houses for investors and owners are no rarity – in the last three decades approximately a Milliion of German citizens let themselves be sold a de facto junk real estate as an investment, above all for the age precaution. It is true that very few of them […]

Life insurance policies are often part of the insolvency estate

When reinsurance and direct insurance can be gone The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG, judgment of 17.01.2012, Case No. 3 AZR 10/10) recently ruled that an insolvency administrator may access life insurance policies for the company pension scheme even if the employment contract states, for example: “The life insurance policy … is and remains the […]