Professional self-insurance or health support fund

– Supervision-free alternatives to private health insurance – I. Distinction from insurance business subject to prudential supervision A widespread – and erroneous – view is that anything that somehow falls within the scope of insurers’ activities must be insurance subject to licensing. Even very obvious examples show that this obviously cannot be the case. For […]

Company pension scheme: Successful Reversal with the Support Fund – Obligation to Provide Information on Total Loss Risk with Regard to U-Fund Insolvency Scenario

“The right has the curious property that you can keep it without having it.” (Joseph Unger) Particularly in the case of deferred compensation, it is advisable to choose a reinsured provident fund (U-fund) as the carrier in the company pension scheme (bAV). However, experts agree that this involves additional acquisition and administrative costs that are […]

Betriebliche Altersversorgung – Facts&Fiction: Support fund – Investment fraud with built-in employer liability ?

*by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Lecturer (Univ. of Cooperative Education), Banker (www.fiala.de ) and Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm, Actuary DAV (Diethardt), Actuarial Expert (www.pkv-gutachter.de ) “Smile and be happy, it could be worse!” And I laughed and was glad – […]

Retirement planning with annuity purchase instead of life insurance or sovereign wealth funds with cash cover

– How the state can ensure the efficiency of retirement planning for the middle class –   After 31 years of work, average earners will only receive a basic pension (social welfare level, with up to less than 758 euros per month) – low earners would have to work 63 years in social security for […]

Corona aid: With the support of the state in insolvency and old-age poverty

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 […]

Contribution savings in the PKV with relief fund

Savings in private health insurance premiums with a provident fund / The emergency tariff makes it possible Around 5% of those insured with private health insurance (UN) are in social tariffs (standard tariff, emergency tariff, basic tariff), with an upward trend. In the emergency tariff, private health insurance policyholders with substantial premium arrears are “steered […]

Reduction of liability and plausibility checks for investment advisors in closed-end fund offerings – Part 2

The investment adviser must fulfil his main duties. He cannot rely on the assessment of third parties. One will be able to trust an experienced investment advisor that he is able to carry out a plausibility check based on the basic investment criteria and specific extensions to the investment category.   Plausibility is the estimation […]

Tax-privileged health support by employer without any private supplementary insurance at all

– Efficient employee retention through company sickness benefits –   According to § 10 I No.3 EStG should since 2010 all Contributions to private health and long-term care insurance are fully tax-deductible as “other pension expenses”. However, this only applies in so far as it is proportionally a so-called basic insurance (basic health insurance and […]

Riester savers work to the benefit of creditors, insolvency administrators and social security funds in case of doubt

Contracts usually distrainable – contrary to the advertising of providers Financial houses, i.e. banks and insurance companies, and their lobbying associations claim in their advertising and in the training documents for their advisers and agents that the assets saved in Riester contracts cannot be seized. The opposite is true, as evidenced by a ruling of […]

Pension funds give cause for concern

Risks for doctors, notaries, tax consultants, lawyers, dentists, architects and auditors Around 90 pension funds, also known as pension chambers, are public corporations that collect funds from their “compulsory members” for the au au of a funded pension scheme. Past and foreseeable pension cuts challenge the system. No exit by refusal to pay The Higher […]