Merck Finck & Co oHG Privatbankiers
Headquartered in Munich, Merck Finck & Co, Privatbankiers has been serving the needs and wishes of discerning customers for 140 years. The thrust of these activities is providing asset monitoring and management services to high wealth private customers. The bank is headed by two personally liable partners: Michael Krume (CEO) and Georg Freiherr von Boeselager. In April 1999, Merck Finck & Co became part of the KBL European Private Banker (epb) network. These ties enable Merck Finck & Co to avail itself of the knowhow and experience of a Europe-wide group of experts. MünchenerHyp is the only German mortgage bank doing business in the legal form of a registrated co-operative. The Bank was founded in 1896 as the »Bayerische Landwirthschaftsbank«. The owners/members of the Bank consist of a large number of credit co-operatives (Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken), well-known co-operative companies within the co-operative association (FinanzVerbund) as well as 94,000 individual members, most of whom are also customers. The Bank lists total assets of approximately 34 billion euros.
The
bank's focus is the provision of consulting, operative and management services
to large private or corporate fortunes. To accomplish this, Merck Finck &
Co undertakes the proactive management of stocks, funds and other classes of
assets. The bank's strength and focus are the efficacious allocation of assets.
Merck Finck & Co's clientele prize its approach of maintaining discretion
and person-to-person ties and showing respect for their situations.
The bank's financial markets' team is an active and successful participant on money, currency, stock, bonds and derivatives exchanges in Germany and abroad. The team forms the bridge to the world's markets in these areas. The bank's forming part of the European Private Bankers Group yields the advantages of access to information and better prices on international exchanges benefiting customers.
Merck Finck & Co possesses in-depth knowhow on all widely-traded products available on markets. The direct access to markets offered by the bank join with the excellent contacts that it maintains to market makers and with its forming part of strong and strongly-operating international group in enabling it to attain short times of order execution. The bank's sales team has created a range of solutions enabling it to satisfy individual requirements.
The bank and its subsidiary Merck Finck Treuhand AG offer the entire spectrum of high-end private banking services. These range from strategic wealth planning and management to consulting on inheritances and corporate successions and on foundations and family offices.
The bank created its Investment Center to handle the bottom-up segment of the investment process. To this end, the Center compiles publications on a wide range of asset classes. These provide the briefings and benchmark portfolios required by portfolio managers at decentralized IVV and at private bankers to reach sound decisions on investments.
Merck Finck & Co, Privatbankiers' staff comprises 130 consultants. These work at more than 20 offices. These are located in all of Germany's business centers. This network enables Merck Finck & Co to supply - on-site and face-to-face - its clients with optimal consulting and liaison services.
The Bank is active at national and international levels. Its main lines of business are long-term mortgage loans offered in co-operation with Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken, and providing direct financing for commercial properties in Germany and abroad. The Bank derives its funding from bond emissions on national and international capital markets. Moody’s Investors Service has given MünchenerHyp’s Pfandbriefe its top AAA rating.
The Bank operates twelve regional offices across Germany. These offices are staffed with lending experts who provide qualified evaluations of loan requests to Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken.
The Bank’s subsidiary, »M-Wert GmbH«, is a property appraisal specialist and provides certified appraisal services to members of the FinanzVerbund and to non-members.
Partner companies with long years of experience in selected market segments serve as the Bank’s direct lending business representatives outside of Germany. Münchener Hypothekenbank is represented in New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Asterdam and Vienna.
The bank's financial markets' team is an active and successful participant on money, currency, stock, bonds and derivatives exchanges in Germany and abroad. The team forms the bridge to the world's markets in these areas. The bank's forming part of the European Private Bankers Group yields the advantages of access to information and better prices on international exchanges benefiting customers.
Merck Finck & Co possesses in-depth knowhow on all widely-traded products available on markets. The direct access to markets offered by the bank join with the excellent contacts that it maintains to market makers and with its forming part of strong and strongly-operating international group in enabling it to attain short times of order execution. The bank's sales team has created a range of solutions enabling it to satisfy individual requirements.
The bank and its subsidiary Merck Finck Treuhand AG offer the entire spectrum of high-end private banking services. These range from strategic wealth planning and management to consulting on inheritances and corporate successions and on foundations and family offices.
The bank created its Investment Center to handle the bottom-up segment of the investment process. To this end, the Center compiles publications on a wide range of asset classes. These provide the briefings and benchmark portfolios required by portfolio managers at decentralized IVV and at private bankers to reach sound decisions on investments.
Merck Finck & Co, Privatbankiers' staff comprises 130 consultants. These work at more than 20 offices. These are located in all of Germany's business centers. This network enables Merck Finck & Co to supply - on-site and face-to-face - its clients with optimal consulting and liaison services.
The Bank is active at national and international levels. Its main lines of business are long-term mortgage loans offered in co-operation with Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken, and providing direct financing for commercial properties in Germany and abroad. The Bank derives its funding from bond emissions on national and international capital markets. Moody’s Investors Service has given MünchenerHyp’s Pfandbriefe its top AAA rating.
The Bank operates twelve regional offices across Germany. These offices are staffed with lending experts who provide qualified evaluations of loan requests to Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken.
The Bank’s subsidiary, »M-Wert GmbH«, is a property appraisal specialist and provides certified appraisal services to members of the FinanzVerbund and to non-members.
Partner companies with long years of experience in selected market segments serve as the Bank’s direct lending business representatives outside of Germany. Münchener Hypothekenbank is represented in New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Asterdam and Vienna.
Key figures
Year of founding: 1870Staff size: some 400