May 11, 2017
Generali is looking to buy portfolio management teams to expand its asset management operations and beef up its fee-based business, the Italian group said after reporting a 9 percent fall in first-quarter profits on Thursday. Italy’s biggest insurer said it …
February 10, 2016
French corporate raider Vincent Bollore is making his influence felt in corporate Italy by defying the country’s old guard in choosing a replacement for Mario Greco as Generali chief executive. Greco may have masterminded a three-year turnaround and a doubling …
January 12, 2016
Uncertainty over whether Mario Greco will stay on as chief executive of Generali rattled investors in Italy’s top insurer on Monday after a Swiss newspaper reported rival Zurich Insurance was set to poach him. Speculation that Greco, who ran the …
February 23, 2012
The battle for control of Italian insurer Fondiaria-SAI heated up on Wednesday when two private equity funds tabled a rival offer to one brokered by top investment bank Mediobanca to rescue the troubled insurer by merging it with peer Unipol. …