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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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Poste Vita trimmed BTPs to 48.3% of portfolio in 2022
22 May 2023Italian giant also bought reinsurance for 'mass lapse' underwriting risk
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Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk
19 May 2023Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk
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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