Archive

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers

    15 March 2024

    Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings

  • Unipol posts 3.8% investment return as interest rates rise

    19 February 2024

    Higher rates also spurring plans for significant structural change at Italian group

  • Moody's upgrades UnipolSai's outlook from "negative" to "stable"

    22 November 2023

    Change follows similar upgrade of Italian sovereign rating and reduction in exposure to Italian assets

  • Fitch hails Generali's move away from Italian govvies

    19 September 2023

    Cites reduced investment concentration risk as factor in increased rating

  • UnipolSai reveals 'exotic' and somewhat luxurious investments

    22 August 2023

    Italian's GA complements rivals' stakes in art, maritime loans, holiday homes and "a Danish ship"

  • UnipolSai unit has one-third of investments in BTPs

    24 July 2023

    And making 2.1% more on investment than life policies promise

  • Generali and Unipol assessed for BTP exposure as Italy demoted

    01 August 2022

    S&P Global Ratings has Italy's outlook to stable

  • UnipolSai unit taps into banks' bad loan portfolios

    08 February 2019

    Unipol ReC pays €130m for two portfolios worth €1.3bn

  • Volatilità spurs Italian insurers to review portfolios

    04 September 2018

    Italy's underwriters long understood their sovereign debt was not riskless. This year's jolts only intensified their search for other investments, as David Walker reports