Financial systems can feel especially difficult when you are navigating them in another country. Plan Save Shine helps make those decisions easier to understand and gives you a clear route to personalised support when your situation requires it.
Understand the protection available in Germany and the questions worth asking before choosing health, home, auto or other insurance solutions.
Explore insurance & protectionLiving or working across different countries can make retirement planning harder to read. Get a clearer view of the questions, systems and long-term decisions that may apply to your situation.
Explore retirement planningBring your financial decisions together instead of treating insurance, retirement, savings and investments as isolated topics. Wealth management is for situations where a broader view is more useful than a single-product decision.
Explore wealth managementYou can also explore support around investments, tax-related financial questions and savings.
View all financial servicesInsights is the public editorial space of Plan Save Shine, bringing together practical answers, reference guides and useful perspectives across PLAN, SAVE and SHINE.
You will find content designed to help with questions such as understanding German financial systems, preparing for long-term decisions, navigating everyday processes, rebuilding routines after a move or simply making life in Germany easier to understand. Most Insights remain freely accessible, so you can use them before deciding whether to join the Club or book a conversation.
The Shine Library brings together practical resources released by Plan Save Shine — including ShineBooks, checklists, tools and other materials designed to help you organise information and act on it more easily.
Resources are added as they are produced and verified. Some can be reserved for Shiners, while the main Insights remain publicly accessible.
Explore the Shine LibraryJade Boinot is the main expert behind Plan Save Shine's financial content and regularly contributes to or reviews key PLAN topics.
Her role on the site is simple: help turn complex financial and practical questions into explanations that people living in Germany can actually use. That means being clear about what can be explained generally, what depends on an individual situation and when professional support becomes relevant.
Plan Save Shine grows from that financial foundation into a wider editorial project about building a life in Germany with more understanding, connection and confidence.
About Plan Save ShinePlan Save Shine also builds on questions that come up in real conversations, appointments and workshops.
Events provide another way to learn, exchange experiences and explore a topic beyond an article. When new workshops or community experiences are scheduled, they are published on the events page.
