Extremely affluent investors differ in a number of ways. In industrialized countries the average age of UHNWI is rather high, their wealth is frequently inherited and the investment style if more conservative. In contrast, UHNWI in emerging markets are comparatively young, they have created...

For the past ten years the politicians have been advocating private pension plans and pushing a new system embodied in a range of models, e.g. pensions for the self-employed, for employees, as well as company pension plans. In such cases, the contributions are put into personal accounts and...

German credit institutions have the duty of banking confi dentiality, i.e. they are obliged not to divulge their clients’ credit and fi nancial circumstances and to deny queries in general. Banking confi dentiality is not specifi cally regulated by law, but the prevalent view is that banking...