– Why life insurance has outlived its usefulness as a capital accumulation vehicle – Wim Duisenberg, ex-president of the ECB, when asked how he invests his money: “Personally, I’m in the fortunate position of having no reserves.” Statistically, up to more than 80 million German citizens own more than one life insurance policy. […]
– Why the capital market with compound interest effect does not allow us to expect higher pensions – For years, insiders have been reporting difficulties in the pension funds in generating the promised returns to finance pensions. While the management of a Versorgungskammer used to pat themselves on the back year after year because […]
– How clueless facilitators and training managers go straight to jail instead of through LOS -. On 05.11.2014, the Central Criminal Investigation Service Lüneburg arrested two insurance brokers for commercial fraud. The intermediaries induced their customers to terminate existing annuity and life insurance policies in order to subsequently take out new insurance policies that […]
– Why the days of effortless money-making via life insurance are long gone – Agents’ commissions fall The Life Insurance Reform Act (LVRG) not only lowers the guaranteed interest rate for life insurance policies from 1.75% to only 1.25% from 2015, but also the permitted inclusion of acquisition costs through zillmerisation from 4% to […]
Why you should cancel an insurance policy After taking out an insurance policy, there are Insured persons have two options contractual relationship with your insurer to terminate the contract: On the one hand, the contract can be terminated – like any contract- under Compliance with the legal deadlines informal and on the other hand, it […]
Why training and sales managers are personally liable in private health insurance sales. An analysis by attorney Dr. Johannes Fiala and mathematician Peter A. Schramm. Landauf Landab insurance brokers, independent financial service providers and bank advisors complain that at sales events held by trainers, they actually only experience positive product features through colourful pictures, […]
– How the insurance consultant with a second job may do exactly this and more nevertheless – Insurance brokers as well as insurance consultants are allowed to offer policyholders (VN) in private health insurance (PKV) at the change of tariff according to the new tariff. § Section 204 of the German Insurance Contract Act […]
– Have supplementary nursing care insurance policies served their time as asset protection policies? – Compulsory long-term care insurance (PPV) as partial coverage “Help yourself, that’s how God helps you” thought the legislator when he created the JPA – even with “Pflege-Bahr” only a partial cover of up to less than 50% of the nursing […]
Are state parliamentarians threatened with poverty in old age? Trade union pension experts complained in 2018 that members of a state parliament received 3.675% p.a. of their diets as a pension under the pension law in force until 2007, with a calculated income of EUR 8,220 after five years, i.e. EUR 1,510 as a pension. […]
– Basic foreign values (ordre public) protect against access to assets – German courts also recognise Sharia law and, where applicable, apply it compulsorily if it does not contradict fundamental German legal concepts – especially the constitution. Conversely, German law is not applied abroad, even if it is fundamentally valid, if it contradicts the fundamental […]
