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  • Solvency data reveals eight Italian life firms' lapses outweighed their premiums in 2023

    11 October 2024

    Sector's total lapses were worth 52% of its gross written premium

  • Poste Vita's lapse risk rises, but is less than half its Italian peers' average

    28 May 2024

    Surrenders mainly hit unit-linked and with-profits lines, according to SFCR

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of bail-out plan

    22 April 2024

    Italian life insurer faced solvency pressure before rivals took liabilities

  • Eurovita rescue plan will prevent contagion in Italy, says Moody's

    06 July 2023

    The rescuing insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November

  • Eurovita to be rescued by five insurers and banks

    03 July 2023

    Generali Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo Vita, Poste Vita, Unipol and Allianz to run operation holding policies

  • Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

    20 June 2023

    But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

  • ITAS and Poste Vita buy mass lapse reinsurance after surrenders jump

    22 May 2023

    Deals boost capital position as life insurers face competition from other products

  • Ivass hails "significant reduction" in solvency ratio volatility in 2021

    01 July 2022

    Italian regulator comments on average ratio diving to 101% in Eiopa stress tests

  • Poste Vita outlines internal model plans

    22 February 2021

    CFO says solvency ratio has been too volatile

  • Generali makes quick work of parting ways with CFO

    26 January 2017

    Alberto Minali will leave in five days