There are more and more private individuals in Germany.
(Photo: Stephan Schmitz)
- Living only on savings, interest, rental income or dividends has become a trend: the number of privateers has more than doubled since the turn of the millennium.
- Who exactly are the privateers in Germany? How many? And does conscious idleness really make you happier in the end? The Handelsblatt took a look around the world of those people for whom a life without a permanent job is a lifestyle.
- Depending on the life situation, the path to financial independence can and must look different. The Handelsblatt presents three of them.
Revolutionizing the British beer market: That is the not exaggeratedly humble idea of Nina Hook-Zurlino and her husband Alastair Hook when they founded a craft brewery called Meantime in London in 1999. They scrape together the starting capital of 150,000 pounds from their savings, and friends and relatives also get on board. The fact that the Hooks will become millionaires 16 years later through the sale of Meantime is not part of the business plan.
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