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 […]

Federal Supreme Court: Brokered life insurance policies must meet the customer’s needs and capabilities!

29.08.2007 12:33:05 (PA) With every second life insurance customer claim for damages possible – new billion liability for the insurance industry ? * Capital life insurance – legal fraud ?: Already since the judgement of 03.06.1983 (Az. 74 O 47/83) of the regional court Hamburg the evaluation of the capital life insurance was judicially blessed […]

Kick-backs and MiFID: Billions in liability for banks, intermediaries, asset managers

  “You only get rich by doing things you don’t desire.” (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician, 1869 – 1948)   Increasing dangers due to kick-backs After Switzerland, the topic of kick-backs is now also increasingly leading to legal proceedings in Germany if a customer feels cheated by his financial service provider or financial services institution. The […]

bAV: Warning against unlawful banking and financial services transactions *

“The hardest part of having an idea is not having it, but knowing if it’s good.” (Chris Howland)   Payment transactions for time value accounts or for “contractual portability” Innovative initiators in the field of company pension schemes (bAV) and the handling of time value accounts have brought models onto the market in which they […]

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 […]

Insurance mediation as commercial fraud

– 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 […]

Financial distribution without a licence and without supervision?

In 2007 at the latest, we began to regulate the free brokerage of financial products to a greater extent. Good reputation, liability insurance, proven expertise, the obligation to provide extensive information and documentation are standard. Some “old hands” have saved themselves into the new era without a certificate of competence. Since this year, financial investment […]