- CEO
- Mario Freis
- Full Time Employees
- 917
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment managers
- Address
- Heumarkt 1 Cologne NW Germany 50667
- IPO Date
- Jul 21, 2006
- Business
- OVB Holding AG, a Germany-based management holding company headquartered in Cologne and founded in 1970, leads the OVB Group as one of Europe's prominent financial advisory and brokerage firms focused on long-term, customer-oriented consulting for private households. The company operates through subsidiaries in 16 European countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and Ukraine; it serves over 4.7 million clients via more than 6,200 full-time financial advisors who provide cross-thematic allfinanz services encompassing subsistence and property/asset insurance, pensions, asset building, wealth management, capital investments, and financing products sourced from over 100 high-performance partners such as insurance companies, banks, and building societies. Advisors conduct personalized analyses of clients' financial situations, develop tailored long-term solutions, and perform regular reviews to adapt to life-stage changes, with recent digitalization efforts enhancing client interfaces and advisory processes. In 2024, OVB achieved record brokerage income of EUR 408.6 million, up 15.3%, with EBIT rising 14% to EUR 20.3 million and client/advisor numbers growing 4.5% and 6.6% respectively; the company expanded in Belgium through inorganic acquisition yielding nearly 40% sales growth there, commenced operations in Slovenia in 2022, proposed an 11.1% dividend increase to EUR 1.00 per share, extended Executive Board member Heinrich Fritzlar's term to 2028, and appointed Alexandra Markovic-Sobau to the Supervisory Board in July 2025, while launching the "OVB Excellence 2027" strategy emphasizing sales excellence, digital transformation with a EUR 50 million IT investment including client platforms and AI, and operational enhancements across segments. OVB anticipates 2025 brokerage income of EUR 420-440 million despite revising EBIT guidance lower to EUR 10-15 million due to a product partner insolvency impacting subsidiaries in Spain, Italy, Belgium, and France.