Legal and illegal tax evasion for ordinary earners and the middle class?

Ways to absolute tax exemption for every federal citizen – or tax evasion deluxe National budgetary law is considered the supreme discipline of parliaments. Already in the European Community (EC) the design principle applied that the member states compete with each other through national laws on income taxation. This has led to international corporations being […]

Drying up of life insurance – too few investment options for too much money

– 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. […]

Extraordinary termination without notice of contractually non-cancellable insurance and other contracts

– How to immediately terminate long-term occupational and personal pension contracts -.   It is not only in private banks that it is common for employees to have to earn up to more than three times their gross salary. For bank customers, this means that up to more than 1% of their assets can go […]

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 […]

Private health insurance (PKV) at an economy price – for up to less than 100 euros per month

– How to save thousands of dollars every year with good nerves and advice? –   The “last chance for privately insured people” is advertised en masse on the Internet, through ads that lead to the tariff change broker. For a few thousand euros the premium is lowered, by a tariff change. Two horse feet […]

Manager liability insurance: mostly worthless for managers and companies?

– Why so-called Directors & Officers (D&O) liability insurance policies often do not cover –   Manager liability instead of risk management Self-employed persons, i.e. tradesmen and freelancers, often use corporations for their own professional activities. Out of fear of so-called “liability for breaching private assets”, you then have a manager liability insurance policy sold […]

Books / Technical articles

Publications – Technical papers Fiala/Schramm, Insolvency risk of British life insurers when relocating to Ireland, ExpertenReport, issue 7/2019, pages 60-62 Fiala/Schramm, When are insurers no longer obliged to pay benefits or can reduce benefits?Expert Report, issue 3/2019, pages 56-58 Fiala/Schramm, No insurance coverage in case of refusal to pay protection money, ExpertenReport, issue 11/2018. Pages […]

The company pension scheme

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 […]

No yield tuning by selling the pension and life insurance in the secondary market?

– What insurance customers should be aware of before or after they terminate –   Countless brokers and advisors live from new business. So there is nothing more obvious than to persuade customers to cancel or sell their existing investments, especially life insurance policies. However, general statements about pension (RV) and life insurance (LV) policies […]

Invalidity of contracts, confiscation of assets and arrest in case of breach of penalties

Sanctions have been in fashion for centuries, and are being broken. The widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, in reaction to Napoleon’s Russian campaign, was concerned with the embargo imposed by the Russian Tsar on French products in 1812. The widow hired a Dutch ship, had it loaded with over 10,000 bottles of the 1811 vintage, and was […]