All Italy articles
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Opinion PiecesLetter from a country in crisis
Empty streets and squares are not a usual sight in Italy, a country whose people love to socialise. The deadly COVID-19 pandemic has even taught Italians to make orderly queues outside supermarkets. The reality is that while Italians are not good at prevention, they are outstanding at reacting to emergency situations, thanks to their experience dealing with earthquakes and other natural disasters.
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Interviews
How we run our money: Pirelli DB pension funds
Flavio Cateni (pictured), former head of DB pensions at Pirelli, now acting as an adviser to the company, outlines a far-sighted fiduciary management strategy and a robust risk management approach
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News
Italy’s Fonchim awards €260m to Credit Suisse AM
Plus: Scheme for consultants tenders consulting services
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Interviews
How We Run Our Money: Cometa
Maurizio Agazzi and Oreste Gallo of Cometa, one of Italy’s largest pension funds, talk to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s evolving strategy
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News
Italy roundup: Cometa seeks managers for €1.4bn
Plus: Gomma Plastica to hire new general manager, Intesa Sanpaolo to recruit admin
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Features
Perspective: Carlo Cottarelli
Carlo Cottarelli, the Italian economist and former IMF director, says fixing the European economy will mean taking difficult decisions
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News
Mandate roundup: AP1 tenders for new global custodian
Plus: Italy’s Fon.Te picks government bonds manager
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Generali Investments
A year into Generali’s ambitious growth plan, it looks set to meet its promises
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News
Mandate roundup: $400m for US equities on offer via IPE Quest
Plus: ERAFP retenders convertible bonds, federal state of Saxony-Anhalt seeks small and mid-cap manager
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News
Investors welcome new corporate green debt structure
APG and MP Pension positive on Enel’s general purpose bond with higher coupon on offer if environmental targets missed
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News
Italy roundup: Fon.Te ups equities allocations in raft of changes
Separately, €3bn Laborfonds is seeking managers for its balanced, dynamic sub-funds
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News
How Europe’s pension sectors are preparing for Brexit
IPE asked regulators and industry bodies in EU member states how they have been preparing for the UK’s scheduled departure from the bloc on 31 October
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Mandate roundup: £1bn LGPS fund preparing low-carbon switch
Plus: Solidarietà Veneto tenders two mandates worth €328m; Cardano details six fiduciary mandates
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Special Report
Italy: Prioritising early retirement
The 2019 budget allocated funds to allow more favourable early retirement but its impact has been limited
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News
Italian funds appoint Neuberger Berman to run joint private equity mandate
Five industry-wide defined contribution schemes have joined forces to invest €216m in private equity
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News
Chart of the Week: Italy’s coalition collapses – bond markets barely blink
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte quit his post this week, signalling the end of the controversial coalition government of the Five Star Movement and the Northern League
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News
Italian pension fund Solidarietà Veneto to add infrastructure, real estate
Fund for companies in the Veneto region said it was ready to make the move based on its experience so far in private markets
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Italian roundup: Fonchim offers five mandates worth €1.75bn
Utilities sector fund Pegaso seeks consultant; Media industry fund tenders mandates for equity and bond managers
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Experts voice concerns over planned Italian second-pillar fund
Aon and SSGA say Italy’s INPS is unsuited to run a proposed new pension fund and should focus on developing existing arrangements
