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  • Generali Spain appoints CEO

    20 February 2014

    Santiago Villa will head up the insurer's Spanish division

  • EU insurers' investments increasingly risky

    20 January 2014

    Search for good yields means more speculative assets held, says Fitch

  • Panizza overhauls Generali's risk management

    10 January 2014

    After some torrid years, Italian insurer Generali is undergoing a massive transformation aimed at restoring its profitability. Chief risk officer Sandro Panizza explains to Christopher Cundy how, one year into the job, he is changing the risk management function

  • Generali places €1.25bn bond

    08 January 2014

    Issuance was 7.5 times oversubscribed

  • Using least squares Monte Carlo proxy functions for internal model validation

    18 December 2013

    LSMC techniques are finding popularity in Solvency II economic capital calculations and multi-year projections of capital requirements. In this article, Christian Bettels explains how they can also apply to validation of internal models

  • Generali budgets €33m to prepare for Solvency II

    27 November 2013

    Major reforms to investment management processes under way

  • S&P raises outlook on Scor as ERM strengthens

    22 November 2013

    Continues Scor's eight-year unbroken run of positive rating moves

  • Generali offloads agricultural division to Cattolica

    21 November 2013

    Italian insurer to sell Fata Danni for €179m

  • Italian insurers face credit risk

    15 November 2013

    High percentage of sovereign assets creates vulnerability

  • Aegon leads, Aviva lags in reducing leverage

    19 September 2013

    Insurers to continue using excess cash to pay off debt, says Moody's