Stefan Loipfinger

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Stefan Loipfinger (* 1968 in Wasserburg am Inn ) is a German business journalist and former fund analyst . In 2008 he founded the information portal CharityWatch, which promotes transparency in donation-collecting associations.

Fund telegram

Loipfinger founded the portal fondstelegramm.de in 2004 , which deals critically with open-ended real estate funds and closed-end funds . He is a trained banker and business economist and has been working as a freelance business journalist, fund analyst and specialist author since 1994. The industry online service fondstelegram focuses on the analysis of products and the evaluation of initiator performance balances. In addition, market trends are commented on, tax and legal changes are discussed, information on old and new funds is given, and checklists, glossaries and background information on the individual fund types are published.

At the beginning of 2008 Loipfinger handed over fondstelegramm.de to the Berlin publishing house Welther and sold the annual overall market study of the investment models to the Bad Homburg rating agency Feri. At the end of 2008, his revelatory book License to Catch Farmers was published , which put an end to the field of activity at that time.

CharityWatch

In 2008, Loipfinger shifted its field of activity to the observation of charitable donation organizations with CharityWatch .

The Stiftung Warentest recommended Charity Watch as an information source for identifying reputable organizations both in general (issue 05/2009) and again for special projects (eg. As a reference for reputable charities for East Africa). In contrast, CharityWatch was criticized from fundraising industry circles. The fundraising consultant and journalist Christoph Müllerleile did not see the transparency required by CharityWatch as justified: “As long as there is no competitive equality between the nonprofits who would like to be transparent and those who hide information, the transparency cannot prepare any require full disclosure, or only to impartial auditors who are not allowed to reveal any business secrets. ”At the end of December 2011, the German Fundraising Association reacted in a similar way, emphasizing that CharityWatch has no legitimation to allow non-profit organizations to release internal documents request to make an assessment. On February 27, 2012, CharityWatch stopped its work, but the website can be reached with almost all contributions stored in the Internet Archive .

Awards

Fonts

  • Lexicon of tax-saving investments. From premium to secondary market. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-05892-7 ; Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41654-3
  • Basic knowledge of closed real estate funds. Questions and answers. Deutscher Sparkassen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, 28 pp.
  • Martina Rozok and Stefan Loipfinger: Internet presences of closed real estate funds . Analysis. Zitelmann & Rozok, Berlin 2001, 126 sheets.
  • License to catch farmers. The fund managers' self-enrichment strategies and the failures of the financial controllers. Self-published, Rosenheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026412-2
  • The donation mafia: dirty business with our pity. Knaur TB , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-78498-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita Stefan Loipfinger ( MS Word ; 29 kB)
  2. ↑ The new fund telegram from Stefan Loipfinger. Fund transparency at the click of a mouse ( Memento of the original dated June 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Der Immobilienbrief" No. 65, KW 27, June 29, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ascado.de
  3. ↑ CharityWatch.de - For a better culture of donations - Methods, experiences and future prospects ( Memento from June 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Stefan Loipfinger , CharityWatch.de
  5. ↑ Imprint CharityWatch.de
  6. ↑ Stiftung Warentest : How to : Donate correctly in: Finanztest 12/2010
  7. ↑ Stiftung Warentest : Serious helpers recognize test.de, August 10, 2011
  8. ↑ Charity Watch: Who judges us? ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ngo-dialog.de, Newsletter No. 11, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ngo-dialog.de
  9. ↑ Culture of giving is currently taking huge damage. German Fundraising Association (DFRV), December 11, 2011, archived from the original on February 21, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2013 (DFRV criticizes one-sided view of the donation scene and publishes background information, press release).
  10. ↑ CharityWatch.de stops work. Fundraiser Magazine, archived from the original on March 1, 2012 ; Retrieved January 4, 2013 .
  11. ^ German Prize for Real Estate Journalism, Scientific Association for the Promotion of Real Estate Journalism e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Loipfinger, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist and fund analyst
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasserburg am Inn