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Comment - Time for Europe's lifers to 'talk tough' with their governments?
04 May 2023Knowlingly or not, some of Europe's governments now have sovereigns able to compete with life policy promises
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Comment - Rome turns into life insurers' competitor, as BTP yields jump
03 May 2023Moody's posited sovereign debt as one rival investment to local lifers' policy promises
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Italian lifers keep more unit-linked product returns than customers led to expect
03 March 2023IVASS reveals unit-linked policy sales growth
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Comment - Is an 'AI CIO' better than a CIO?
03 March 2023When will machine learning algorithm be running the GA?
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IVASS reveals climate data collection project for 2022
07 July 2022Italian regulator will gather and report on how underwriters use climate factors when investing
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Junk bond holdings helped decide IVASS on insurers' 2021 dividends and bonuses
06 July 2022Some Italian insurers wanting to pay shareholders and staff bonuses were knocked back
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IVASS reveals where, and why, paper losses sit in insurers' general accounts
05 July 2022Regulator let lifers stress-test negative rates environment in 2021 mid-year trials
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IVASS reveals €25bn reduction in BTP exposure in 2021
04 July 2022Trimming left general accounts 38% exposed, on average
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Chart of the Week - Veni, vidi, vendidit ('I came, I saw, I sold [my BTPs]')
01 July 2022Julius Caesar obviously loved the Roman Empire. Insurers' CIOs who kept selling off BTPs in 2021 seem less convinced
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Italian insurers in first net capital loss position "for several years" as rates rise
01 July 2022IVASS head leaves door open for re-emergence of non-unit linked products