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Generali, Axa, sign up to Insurance Development Forum's infrastructure blueprint
08 July 2024Plan aims to boost investment in renewables and digital infrastructure
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Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies
02 May 2024Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class
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On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
15 April 2024In the second part of this interview, Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses on the merry-go-round of asset classes the Italian giant invests in, and provides an outlook for the next 12 to 18 months
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CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
08 April 2024Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses the Italian giant's investment strategy and reveals some of its most exotic investments, including blockchain
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Investment risk a necessity for insurers
15 November 202160% of insurers to increase risk in next two years, Blackrock survey finds
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Generali strengthens finances with record operating profit of €5.2bn
11 March 2021CEO acknowledges management changes and attributes them to crisis management
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Generali appoints Francesco Martorana as CIO
02 March 2021Bruno Servant replaces Martorana as CEO of Generali Insurance Asset Management
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Stress-tested: How COVID-19 put insurers' investments under pressure
14 September 2020The impact of the pandemic on insurers' claims remains unknown, and estimates vary widely. However, market turbulence in H1 has clearly impacted the asset side of insurers' balance sheets. Already, though, underwriters are looking ahead and rethinking investment decisions and ensuring resilience. Vincent Huck surveys the damage done and the plans afoot
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Insurers investments likely to remain strained for a while longer, Sigma says
10 July 2020Swiss Re's research affiliate forecasts US 10-year yield to stay around 1%
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Insurers still live under the shadow of low rates, Generali's Martorana warns
24 June 2020Francesco Martorana, chief executive of Generali Insurance Asset Management warns that while crises come and go, low interest rates remain the main threat for the sector. Interview by Vincent Huck
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