– How pools deliver their insurance brokers as partners directly to the knife – “We illuminate the market”: 100 per mille brokerage fee – “extremely favorable” ? A broker pool lures with a remarkably high brokerage fee – but unfortunately this does not matter for the broker liability: After all, the advertised product, a […]
Artikel zum Thema: Interest
Company pension scheme: Early termination of insurance contracts in the event of a change of employer
By Dr. Johannes Fiala and Thomas Keppel Reader A. S. asks: In the July 2007 issue of BC, I read with great interest the article on occupational pension provision and the employer’s obligation to offset losses in the case of deferred compensation. Subsequently, I invited our insurance agent for a discussion. He informed me, among […]
IRR return method: reinvestment premise and liability risks
Investment advice for closed-end funds using the IRR return method as the key return indicator. I. IRR advice by the bank and triggering liability reasons In one of the most recent judgements of the LG Munich, a bank was sentenced to pay damages because a bank director had, among other things, used the IRR […]
Occupational pension provision: entrepreneurs must expect a wave of lawsuits
A recent ruling by the Munich Regional Labour Court confirms that the offsetting of acquisition costs in the first few years in occupational pension schemes with deferred compensation is not permissible. Corresponding agreements are null and void – even if the employee was previously expressly informed about the offsetting of acquisition costs. In its reasons, […]
Occupational pension schemes: U-funds without insolvency protection, up to 25 billion euros employer liability
by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), M.B.A. (Univ.Wales), M.M. (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Banker (www.fiala.de) The case ?XXX U-Kasse?: Once upon a time there was a U-Kasse in Ratingen, today you can only find the insolvency administrator on the Internet who is winding up this U-Kasse. The case went through […]
bAV: The fairy tale of GGF insolvency protection, in particular of pension commitments
DIE WELT of August 03, 2005, page 1 reports: A recent study by the German Institute for Retirement Provision (DIA) reveals that the statutory pension is no longer sufficient. However, almost 60 percent of all households do not make sufficient provision for their old age. Nearly one third of the population is even threatened […]
Forms and legal classification of leasing contracts III
Introduction: Both real estate and movable assets (movables) can be considered as objects for financing through leasing. In the management of real estate there is always the acquisition of equipment, machinery, vehicles, for which the question of financing arises. This article gives an overview in its three parts and thus helps the house owner and […]
Forms and legal classification of leasing contracts II
0. Introduction Both real estate and movable assets (movables) can be considered as objects for financing through leasing. In the management of real estate there is always the acquisition of equipment, machinery, vehicles, for which the question of financing arises. This article gives an overview in its three parts and thus helps the house owner […]
Interest reimbursement to investors – banks owe billions
Get your annual profits back from the bank: Because the more than 3% interest rate reduction by the ECB since 2000 must be passed on to you by the credit institution! The Investment: It all started quite simply for investor Heinrich Müller (name changed): His banker granted him credit and arranged an interesting project as […]
AWD structure distribution damages 70% of the 20,000 DLF fund investors / With an investment volume of DM 1.3 billion the largest liability case in 2001
On November 16, 2001, DWS lost its second lawsuit: He had been sued by a disappointed investor. On the stock exchange newcomer AWD up to 70% of the investment volume from approximately 14,000 mediated business come as adhesion potential ? plus legal costs and interest from lost investment income (around 6% p.a. is usual). This […]