references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message mlp ag type aktiengesellschaft traded as fwb mlp industry financial services founded 1971 headquarters wiesloch germany key people uwe schroeder wildberg ceo and chairman of the executive board peter l tke bornefeld chairman of the supervisory board products asset management insurance financial advisory ratings agency investment research revenue 480.5 million 2013 1 operating income 32.8 million 2013 1 net income 25.5 million 2013 1 aum 24.5 billion end 2013 1 total assets 1.537 billion end 2013 1 total equity 374.5 million end 2013 1 number of employees 1 559 end 2013 1 website www.mlp ag.com mlp ag formerly marschollek lautenschl ger und partner ag is a german corporation providing financial services especially personal financial planning advisory . it is based in wiesloch baden w rttemberg and was founded on 1 january 1971 in heidelberg by eicke marschollek and manfred lautenschl ger . mlp focuses on providing financial services consulting in the domains of pension provision asset management and risk management to an upscale group of university graduates and wealthy clients . most of the mediated insurances consist in life disability health and annuity insurances . contents 1 structure 1.1 general information 1.2 personnel structure 1.3 shareholders 2 history 2.1 beginning 2.2 way to the flotation 2.3 abroad activities 3 references 4 external links structure edit general information edit financial services like investment trusts insurance enterprises and banks are afforded cost effective market access by extern agents because of the missing maintenance of own distribution networks . for them mlp is an attractive agent because it is geared towards the group of university graduates who have good chances for safe employments and upcoming wealth mlp sues future customers already at the university . in 2013 mlp has around 830 300 clients served by about 1 998 independent consultants and 1 559 permanent mlp employees as of 2013 . 1 personnel structure edit all the consultants have mostly academical background mostly in the same branch of study as their future customers . they act independent but are supported by mlp in getting an own office in one of the agencies and getting the possibility for further education . in 1999 mlp founded the mlp corporate university which officiates as the main centre for basic and further education of consultants worked for mlp . 2 the wage system based for the most part on commissions and premium outlays . but in the first year the consultants received a small wage of 1 250 eur per month . that allows that the students do not have to pay for the advisory services . shareholders edit interest shareholder 23 53 % manfred lautenschl ger ; d 9 89 % talanx ag ; d 9 82 % harris associates l.p. ; usa 7 10 % fmr llc 6 67 % barmenia ; d 6 27 % allianz se ; d 6 03 % angelika lautenschl ger ; d 4 99 % fidelity management & research company 4 84 % berenberg bank ; d 3 06 % franklin templeton investment funds 0 73 % uberior ena ltd. hbos ; uk 3 history edit beginning edit as the insurance broker eicke marschollek and the graduate of law manfred lautenschl ger founded mlp on 1 january 1971 in heidelberg the business idea was from the outset to specialize on young graduates especially on students of law . this specialization charged a market gap and they rapidly enlarged the target group on other graduates like budding medical practitioners . way to the flotation edit in 1972 mlp transformed from a gbr in a kg . in 1974 the success allowed beside the transformation in a gmbh the opening of agencies in wiesbaden bonn and d sseldorf . after adding engineers and economics to their target group the first step for the flotation on 15 june 1988 was placed 1984 in transforming mlp to an ag . from this time mlp grew quickly and in 1997 mlp was represented in the mdax . the corporate headquarters move in 2001 from heidelberg to wiesloch and on 30 july 2001 mlp was part of the dax as one of the 30 biggest publicly traded companies in germany till 2003 . nowadays mlp is represented in the sdax . abroad activities edit the abroad activities started 1995 in austria . in 1998 followed dedications of agencies in switzerland and 2000 in the netherlands . a year later mlp expanded to great britain and in 2002 to spain . but in the course of consolidation in 2003 mlp has concentrated its activities again on germany and in 2007 mlp closed its agencies in spain and great britain . in 2008 the closing of agencies in austria and in the netherlands followed . references edit a b c d e f g h annual report 2013 pdf . mlp . retrieved 27 march 2014 . press release respective 40 years of mlp . mlp . retrieved 1 august 2011 . list of shareholders . mlp . retrieved 10 april 2014 . external links edit official website v t e sdax companies of germany adler real estate alstria office reit amadeus fire baywa bertrandt biotest borussia dortmund braas monier building group capital stage cewe color comdirect bank deutz ag deutsche beteiligungs ag dic asset ferratum gerry weber international gesco gfk grammer grenkeleasing hamborner reit hhla heidelberger druckmaschinen hornbach holding hornbach baumarkt indus holding koenig & bauer kws saat mlp ag patrizia immobilien prime office puma rational saf holland schaltbau sgl carbon shw sixt sixt leasing stabilus str er media takkt tele columbus tlg immobilien tom tailor vossloh vtg wacker neuson zeal network zooplus retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mlp ag & oldid 716104223 categories financial services companies of germanyhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from february 2013all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 19 april 2016 at 22 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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