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Unipol's BTP exposure drops below one-third of portfolio
16 January 2025Morningstar DBRS has called the 30% allocation "significant", however
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Rome to tax unit-linked products in bid to fund its €30bn budget
18 October 2024Georgia Meloni wants Italy's insurers and banks to contribute about €3.5bn to government's next budget
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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Brace! Brace! Tailspin in US variable annuity insurer shares revealed
28 January 2022Airline stocks landed hard as the pandemic unfolded - but VA insurers plunged close behind
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Private rating spike highlights concerns on insurer rating arbitrage
27 January 2022US insurers' privately rated assets jumped 96% in last two years, NAIC finds
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Canadian life insurers sail through pandemic with minimal investment losses
18 August 2021Largest Canadian insurer made money in last 18 months, according to DBRS Morningstar
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Europe's affiliates occupy half of top places for fund-based assets
02 October 2019Affiliates' €2.2trn in funds is now nearly one third of total fund assets managed in Europe
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Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers
30 September 2019Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports
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Low yields, high cost and underperformance: manager fees under the spotlight
23 June 2017Paying high fees for your asset management is never welcome. In the current low return environment insurers are increasingly having to re-evaluate the charges they pay as fees eat into their profits. And not before time, too. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Europe's affiliate managers chalk up 18.5% organic fund growth in 2016
23 March 2017Eurizon steals BNP Paribas' top spot while two Allianz affiliates occupy leading five positions
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