Tag: life insurances
The best private pension insurance 2022
Sporty senior If you are fit in old age, you also want to be financially secure in your old age. (Photo: imago images/Addictive Stock) Cologne Around eleven million households in…
Gas stop is not insurable for companies
gas hob In Europe, there could be a distribution battle over gas in winter. (Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Eckel) Frankfurt If their production is temporarily stopped because of gas rationing, companies cannot…
Supervisors warn of serious hacker attacks on insurers
Munich It was only seven words, but the sentence was enough to put an industry on alert: “Insurers are a popular target for cyber attacks,” said Frank Grund, executive director…
Insured persons are threatened with higher prices for home and car policies
storm damage Losses from natural disasters are expected to be above average again this year. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt German property-casualty insurers are again burdened by high damage costs from natural…
Approaching an often unapproachable industry
Munich Bastian Kunkel should already pick up many readers in the first few lines in their attitude to the subject of insurance. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says:…
R+V boss sees good opportunities for life insurance
Norbert Rollinger The R+V boss sees life insurance becoming more attractive again because of the interest rate turnaround. (Photo: Bernd Roselieb for Handelsblatt) Frankfurt Mr. Rollinger, some time ago you…
“All Germans are underinsured”: The inflation dilemma of life insurance
Dusseldorf Life insurance is one of the most popular old-age provision products for German policyholders. “At the turn of the year, around 83 million life insurance policies were taken out,”…
The hopeless fight against inflation
Munich It is currently the greatest challenge for Germans’ old-age provision: Inflation has been rising for months, and in March inflation climbed to 7.3 percent. On the other hand, customers…
Zurich and Axa sell old portfolios to life insurance companies
Axa logo The French insurer has a portfolio with a nominal volume of around 15 billion on offer. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt, Munich After years of standstill, the processing of old…
Fierce Bafin criticism of fund policies from life insurers
“The Bafin investigation is a real hammer,” says Professor Hermann Weinmann from the Institute for Finance at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences. It shows that there has been a…
Cyber insurance becomes a risk
Frankfurt, Munich They have never been as valuable as they are today: cyber insurance. As a result of the Ukraine war, the risk of state-orchestrated hacker attacks has once again…
The best rates for singles and families
Cologne The desire to vacation is great after two years of the corona pandemic. According to the Tourism Analysis 2022 by the Foundation for Future Questions, 61 percent of Germans…
We want to dovetail asset management and life insurance even more closely.
Frankfurt, Munich Andreas Wimmer is currently doing two jobs at the same time in the Allianz Group: he has been a member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE…
Life insurance is at a turning point
Interest on life insurance High guarantees from the past are a heavy burden for life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Life insurance with a guaranteed interest rate was the favorite investment…
Life insurance is at a turning point
Interest on life insurance High guarantees from the past are a heavy burden for life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Life insurance with a guaranteed interest rate was the favorite investment…
Life insurance is at a turning point
Interest on life insurance High guarantees from the past are a heavy burden for life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Life insurance with a guaranteed interest rate was the favorite investment…
German insurers want to grow faster again in 2022
Bad Neuenahr Even six months after the flood disaster on the Ahr, much of the damage has not yet been repaired. (Photo: imago images/Bonnfilm) Munich German insurers are looking to…
How insurers deal with their legacy portfolios
Interest on life insurance High guarantees from the past are a heavy burden for life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Munich The news came shortly before the turn of the year,…