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 […]
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 […]
Under no circumstances can the security system withstand every conceivable financial crisis. At the very most, however, the supervisory authority is entitled to contractually guaranteed. further reduce benefits and accumulated surpluses to bring them back into line with diminished capital. In the most extreme case, this could lead to that life insurance savers lose more […]
The case: The BFI Bank has never been so broke as it is today. Industry insiders suspected this long before the official bankruptcy petition was filed in court. Lastly, the bank offered credit interest on account balances at a rate far above the market rate, and linked this to a necessary purchase of BFI shares. […]
This is the title of a new book by finance and insurance expert Detlef Pohl. It is written for the 40+ and 50+ generations, and seeks an answer to the question What else can I do to live financially carefree in old age? As an introduction, the presentation of the statutory pension, as well as […]
“Under communism, banks are nationalized and then go bust, under capitalism, banks go bust and then are nationalized.”(Christine Lagarde) First German subprime crisis due to junk real estate and interest rate bets Since the end of the 1980s, not only the legal predecessor group of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRE) has been piling up […]
Investing money abroad could tempt people to break the law MUNICH – Whoever moves his money abroad, for example into an Austrian private foundation or a Liechtenstein family foundation, can by no means be sure that the world income principle does not force him to declare it in Germany. Foreign investment opportunities could downright […]
CONTENTS I. Liability in the event of delegation of tasks II. Particular gaps in cover for voluntary guardians III Further questions regarding adequate insurance cover arise for the professional guardian: Consequences of partnership, cooperation and office sharing No pecuniary loss insurance for lawyers and tax advisors in the case of commercial activity as guardian […]
Dr. Johannes Fiala and Frank M. Strobelt* Trust foundations have a tradition in Germany that goes back more than a thousand years. Many foundations established hundreds of years ago are still operating today. The state explicitly acknowledges the commitment of donors with generous tax breaks and benefits related to the law of public benefit. Positive […]
Particularly against the background of the establishment of a foundation, a very high degree of attention must be paid to goal-oriented personal financial and asset succession planning (inheritance planning). Central topics of foundation management are also risk and return optimisation of the foundation’s assets. Not only as (future) founders, but also as bodies of existing […]
