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Round the World with SFCRs - Italy's lapse risk shows no sign of surrendering
03 June 2024A 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
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Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023
17 April 2024SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk
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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk
19 May 2023Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk
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Arca Vita uses alternatives to replace eurozone sovereigns in 2022
03 May 2023Widening BTP spreads led to "management actions" decreasing bond investments
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BTP spread sensitivity almost eliminated at Unipol life unit
07 May 2021Generali non-life subsidiary almost halves sensitivity of capital ratio to 100bps widening
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Crédit Agricole Assurances acquires 30% of EF Solare
18 January 2021Part of the group strategy to become European leaders in renewable energies
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Widening spreads on Italian govvies – curse or opportunity?
28 November 2019Volatilità was one of the hot topics of 2018, and while widening Italian government bond spreads stressed insurers solvency ratios, was there an investment opportunity to be made? Vincent Huck reports