Verdict
union-investment.de appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | German Union Investment homepage presenting investment funds, savings and retirement products, customer services, financial information, corporate details, and contact channels. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 1997839 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the German Union Investment homepage, presenting investment funds, savings plans, retirement solutions, wealth-management services, financial education, customer support, and corporate information through an established financial-services business model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, brand-impersonation signals, or confirmed malicious detections were observed. The homepage presents a coherent Union Investment identity, detailed financial-service content, customer-service pathways, and corporate information rather than deceptive urgency, unsupported promotional claims, or suspicious transaction mechanics. Normal interaction, including account login and standard account use, is appropriate.
- The homepage identifies Union Investment and provides structured sections for funds, savings, retirement planning, wealth management, sustainability, and customer services.
- The homepage analysis found no red flags, hidden forms, externally routed password forms, cloaking, wallet activity, or suspected brand impersonation.
- Domain registration dating to 1997 indicates an approximately 29-year-old domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides substantial corporate, product, customer-service, and legal information, but the supplied pages do not state a specific license number or licensing authority. This is a transparency item for formal regulatory due diligence, not evidence of fraud. A separate broker-intelligence comparison produced no match and should be treated only as contextual reputation information.
- The site presents corporate details, financial information, customer services, and legal content through its homepage navigation.
- The domain has 839 archive snapshots spanning 1997–2026, covering 30 tracked years.
- Served from AS8075 (Microsoft Corporation, US).
- TLS certificate issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 (DV), valid to 2026-09-30.
What to Verify Next
For institutionally material engagement, confirm the relevant Union Investment legal entity and applicable authorization directly against the competent financial-services registry, and validate official contact channels through an independently sourced corporate record. Product-specific terms, fees, and suitability conditions should be reviewed before investment decisions.
- The homepage identifies investment funds, savings plans, retirement products, and related financial services.
- The supplied content contains no explicit license number or named licensing authority.
- Corporate and customer-service information is available through the site’s navigation.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a high-trust posture consistent with a legitimate, established financial-services entity. Its coherent business presentation, long operating history, clean reputation signals, and stable technical operation support confidence in normal use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted on Microsoft infrastructure and uses a valid GeoTrust DV certificate. This mainstream hosting and encrypted transport provide useful protective controls, although they are mitigating technical signals rather than proof of institutional legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard browsing, login, and account actions are appropriate; formal registry and product due diligence remain suitable for regulated or high-value engagements.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of union-investment.de.
- The request stayed on union-investment.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-04-08. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 52.178.85.218 |
| Name servers | igor.ns.cloudflare.com, sofia.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-04-08 |
| Archive snapshots | 839 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about union-investment.de at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.