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A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?
20 March 2025Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal
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Chart of the Week - IVASS spells out the lay of the land in lifers' GAs, as lapse risk came to Italy
31 January 2025Researchers at the regulator analysed portfolio positioning and likely gains/losses to meet surrenders, in 2023
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Italians regard life policies as investment products more than for demographic risk
27 January 2025IVASS published research on reasons behind policy lapses in 2023
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Chart of the Week - IVASS tells all about BTPs, lapse rates and GA reallocations in 2023
12 July 2024The Italian regulator's annual report for 2023 was a treasure trove of valuable data, and insights, into what made Italy's GA tick
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Italian lifers must "rethink product offerings" as lapse risk hits 12-year high
01 July 2024IVASS intervened at companies to "ensure an adequate level of solvency"
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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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Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers
22 April 2024Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall
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Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs
22 April 2024Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies
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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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Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers
15 March 2024Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings