The Investment Regulation for the investments of German insurance companies had to be amended and restated due to the transposition of Solvency II into German law. The restated Investment Regulation dated 18 April 2016 applies to the investment of the guarantee ... (more)
On December 18, 2015, the US PATH Act (Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015), which makes US real estate investments for German pension funds more attractive, came into force. As a result, the sale of US real property by ... (more)
In February 2015, the German Federal Ministry of Finance published a circular clarifying the procedure that allows an investor to provide sufficient information in order to avoid lump-sum taxation after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the German ... (more)
