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• Rising spreads and falling equities could create perfect storm for insurers in 2017

  04 January 2017

  Likely that interest rates will also remain volatile, say Bernstein analysts

• Generali Investments to use SimCorp

  30 December 2016

  Investment software provider licenses insurer for front, middle and back office solution

• Generali appoints former Axa IM chief as CIO

  13 December 2016

  Timothy Ryan confirmed as successor to Nikhil Srinivasan

• Generali loses chief investment officer

  09 December 2016

  Independent adviser Tim Ryan to take over role from Nikhil Srinivasan

• Raising the stakes in fund management

  07 December 2016

  Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.

• Generali to spearhead investment sales with volatility-controlled strategies

  11 November 2016

  Reveals rich pickings from unit-linked sales

• Insurers overestimate business valuation, Milliman research suggests

  26 October 2016

  Consultancy advocates market-consistent embedded value reporting

• Mortgaging the future

  10 October 2016

  Insurers are realising gains on fixed-income assets faster than ever before. It is a risky strategy, with little regard for future profitability. Sarfraz Thind reports.

• Unipolsai investment yield up 10 basis points

  04 August 2016

  Increase is down to reduction of sovereign bond holdings and slow pace of reinvestment

• Generali goes slower on realising gains

  29 July 2016

  Insurer keen to preserve profitability in falling interest rate environment