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  • FWU Company Introduction & History

  • FWU Factsheet

  • FWU Product Information

  • Press Releases

  • FWU Management Introduction

Please note that the corporate material provided includes information like our company introduction, the FWU factsheet and official press releases. If you are searching for product information or have questions about your contract, we ask you to have a look at our Reporting Center or find our contact information under Support. Please feel free to reach out to us if there is any other information you may need.

Current information about FWU AG and its subsidiaries.
Questions and answers on the current situation

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FWU Life Insurance Lux - Customer Communication

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Insolvency of FWU Life Insurance Lux S.A. - CAA website
Forward You, we've been revolutionizing investment products since 1983

Founded by Dr Manfred Dirrheimer in Germany in 1983, “FWU – Forward you” is an international customer-centric enterprise group headquartered in Munich. Under its umbrella, FWU offers an array of services ranging from unit-linked life insurance to asset and investment management, not to mention distribution of financial products.

FWU has established itself in international markets and, under the brand name "Forward You", now provides its innovative investment products in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

In Europe, FWU Life and FWU Invest service approximately 300K customers and manage over € 2 billion AUM and € 9 billion in total contributions. All the FWU global insurance companies combined service 1 million individual customers.

FWU expanded its home markets by starting to sell products in France in 1997, in Italy in 2006, in Spain in 2014 and in Belgium in 2018. Having gone through ongoing transformations, organic growth, and M&A transactions in 2016, FWU introduced the umbrella brand "FWU – Forward You" for its 25 Group companies. As Dr Manfred Dirrheimer stated in an official interview, this was a re-branding operation motivated by the need to unite the group under a common promise to all our customers in view of our rapid expansion. Following years of historic results, FWU managed to double the number of clients within the space of a few years.

Since then, FWU has developed the awarded Pan-European Forward Quant product strategy, offering its customers quant-based investments via UCIT funds and transparent fixed-price guarantees. Since its launch in 2018, 50K customers have opted for a Forward Quant policy.

By 2005, FWU had already developed its digital advice tool FILOS. Many revisions and improvements later, the tool was launched in Europe, first in Italy in 2016 before being rolled out to each individual sales agent in Europe until 2019. FILOS ensures a documented, highly individualised and guided sales process. It allows to meet clients or to organise remote sales sessions between agents and customers. In 2022, 92 % of all contracts in Europe were signed electronically, 45 % without a physical meeting ever having taken place.

FWU´s technological know-how enabled the Group to deal with and weather the year 2020, the year of the global crisis caused by Covid-19, in the best possible way: within the space of a mere few weeks FWU managed to develop a remote advice and digital contract signature solution that allowed agents and customers to continue using FWU´s insurance products remotely. From consultation to online signature: everything to take out a life insurance policy from the safety and comfort of home.

FWU Introduction & History

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Find here a summary of our FWU company introduction and history.

FWU Factsheet

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Products tailored to each customer

FWU's mission has remained the same since 1983: develop products that are performing and individually tailored to each of our customers. Saving can be simple. Our product offer varies depending on each market, but here you can find information on all of them.

Our Products

Forward Quant is the next generation of long-term investments: flexible and transparent in how much risk you are willing to take and so technologically advanced that you benefit from over 400,000 investments assets.

Explore Forward Quant

Our reporting center is the place to go for resources such as key information documents for packaged retail investment and life insurance products (PRIIP-KIDS), fund factsheets and net asset values. These can help you understand the characteristics, risks, costs, potential gains and losses of our insurance products, and help you compare them with other products on the market.

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FWU Press Releases

The last two years have been exciting ones for FWU - find all news combined for download as well as the latest press release below. In the case that you are searching for another event or product release and are not able to find the corresponding press release, please contact us.

FWU Press Releases

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Driving us forward: our management

All of our employees identify strongly with our philosophy, and this is especially true of our management. These are the innovators, drawn from the best international talent, who form a leadership group of exceptional stability across all our companies.

Dr. Manfred Dirrheimer
Founder & CEO | Bancassurance , Strategy, Takaful

Alexander Dirrheimer
Deputy CEO | Legal, Marketing, Sales

Lukas Ludwig
CPO | Actuarial Office, Product Development

Bernhard Schneider
COO | GRC, HR, IT, Operations

Jürgen Schneider
Managing Director

Michael Gram-Madsen
Managing Director, Chief Officer Asset Management & Liabilities

Arnaud Chemla
Managing Director, CEO

Uwe Meiers
Managing Director, CTO

Dipl.-Ing. Claudia Rainbacher
Board spokesman

Mag. Andreas Buxbaum
Board Member

Jürgen Schneider
Managing Director

Jumanah Saeh
CEO

Imran Ali
COO

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Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Luxembourg-based FWU Life Insurance Lux S.A.'s (FWU Lux) Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) Rating at 'BBB+' and Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB'.

View the Action Commentary 2023 here
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FWU AG

Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Grünwald
Germany

E-mail: info@forwardyou.com

Support: forwardyou.com/support