Based on a sample of 946 German insurance intermediaries, the factors that affect the quality of the information … or certificates) to reduce asymmetric information with respect to the service quality of insurance intermediaries is … concentrate on increasing transparency about intermediaries' (in-)dependence from insurance companies and improve consumers …

Article 42 of the Solvency-II-Directive requires all persons who effectively run the insurance company or have other … German law. Special attention is given to publications of the European insurance supervisory authorities and to the draft of … the German transposition law, the 10th amendment to the German insurance supervision act. The article identifies several …

Capital Markets Union (“CMU”). In view that an equivalent to the CMU or the Banking Union—in the sense of a European Insurance … Union—is not yet on the horizon for the insurance sector (or the occupational pensions sector), one could prima vista take … the view that insurance supervision and regulation is once again taken captive by the necessity of regulatory reforms …

Investors and insurance policyholders are often confronted with complex products and providers' opaque organisational … insurance regulation. …

in the financial sector. The working hypothesis is that the insurance industry has improved its position, resulting in …