Archive

  • Round the World with SFCRs - Italy's lapse risk shows no sign of surrendering

    03 June 2024

    A lot of Italians holding life policies made for the exit, early, in 2022, and the pressure on lifers seemed not to ease much in 2023

  • Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023

    17 April 2024

    SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk

  • Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022

    24 May 2023

    While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds

  • Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk

    19 May 2023

    Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk

  • Arca Vita uses alternatives to replace eurozone sovereigns in 2022

    03 May 2023

    Widening BTP spreads led to "management actions" decreasing bond investments

  • BTP spread sensitivity almost eliminated at Unipol life unit

    07 May 2021

    Generali non-life subsidiary almost halves sensitivity of capital ratio to 100bps widening