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Bloomberg
6 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Aperture Investors Eyes $1 Billion Asset-Backed Finance Fund
Markets Aperture Investors is targeting a $1 billion fund for its newly formed asset-backed finance strategy. The new fund will focus on asset-based finance opportunities in North America, with plans to expand to Europe, according to an emailed statement. The strategy is launching with seed capital from Generali Investments, which manages assets on behalf of insurance firm Assicurazioni Generali SpA.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AM Best Assigns Credit Ratings to Generali Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.U.
AMSTERDAM, July 21, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A+ (Superior) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "aa-" (Superior) to Generali Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.U. (Generali Seguros) (Spain). The outlook assigned to these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. The ratings reflect Generali Seguros' inclusion as a member of the lead rating unit of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (Generali), which has a balance sheet strength that AM Best assesses as very strong, as well as strong operating performance, very favourable business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management. Generali Seguros is strategically important to Generali as it currently sources a material share of the group's business in Spain, which is an important market for Generali. The entity will become Generali's sole entity in Spain, following a reverse merger with Generali España, Sociedad Anonima de Seguros y Reaseguros, which is expected to take place in October 2025. Additionally, Generali Seguros is necessary for licensing as it has a licensed branch in Ireland. This press release relates to Credit Ratings that have been published on AM Best's website. For all rating information relating to the release and pertinent disclosures, including details of the office responsible for issuing each of the individual ratings referenced in this release, please see AM Best's Recent Rating Activity web page. For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit Rating opinions, please view Guide to Best's Credit Ratings. For information on the proper use of Best's Credit Ratings, Best's Performance Assessments, Best's Preliminary Credit Assessments and AM Best press releases, please view Guide to Proper Use of Best's Ratings & Assessments. AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specialising in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit Copyright © 2025 by A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. View source version on Contacts Jose Berenguer, CFA Associate Director, Analytics +31 20 808 2276 Dr. Angela Yeo Senior Director, Analytics +31 20 808 1712 Christopher Sharkey Associate Director, Public Relations +1 908 882 2310 Al Slavin Senior Public Relations Specialist +1 908 882 2318 Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Bloomberg
05-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
UniCredit Starts Reducing Stake in Generali, Repubblica Reports
UniCredit SpA has started reducing its stake in Assicurazioni Generali SpA in recent days as part of the Italian bank's plan to exit the insurer over time, Repubblica newspaper reported. The total amount of shares sold by the Italian lender would correspond to less than 1.5% of Generali, according to the paper on Saturday. UniCredit owned 6.49% of Generali's capital as of April, the paper said.
Bloomberg
15-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Mediobanca Postpones Investor Meeting on Banca Generali Bid
Mediobanca's board agreed to postpone an ordinary general meeting called to approve its takeover offer for Banca Generali to Sept. 25 from June 16, according to a statement Sunday. Certain investors who are shareholders of both Mediobanca and Assicurazioni Generali have highlighted a need to understand Generali's assessment and stance on Mediobanca's proposal before they feel able to vote on it, not least because Assicurazioni Generali acceptance is essential for the deal to be completed, the company said.
Reuters
13-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Mediobanca's Nagel bets on final makeover act to fend off Italian rival
MILAN, June 13 (Reuters) - Mediobanca ( opens new tab shareholders will vote on Monday on the final act of an overhaul its CEO Alberto Nagel began three decades ago to turn a bank born to fund Italy Inc's postwar reconstruction, into its No. 2 wealth manager. To stave off a hostile bid from state-backed Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) ( opens new tab, Nagel in April proposed buying private bank Banca Generali ( opens new tab. His plan, part of a game of chess to reshape Italian finance, crucially involves severing Mediobanca's historic ties with the target's owner, insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali ( opens new tab. It is a bold bet to protect Mediobanca's independence and Nagel's own legacy at a pivotal time for Italian banking. The 60-year-old keen off-piste skier and tennis fan, joined Mediobanca in 1991, dedicating his entire career to the bank. He began his quest to transform Mediobanca at the end of that decade when he managed to convince co-founder Enrico Cuccia that Mediobanca should start managing the money its clients pocketed from transactions Nagel handled as head of investment banking. Made CEO in 2008, Nagel set out to steer the bank away from its role as the lynchpin of Italian capitalism, sitting at the heart of an intricate web of corporate shareholdings. "That role was necessary when Italy's capital market was small and closed," Nagel told Reuters last week. "Once outside capitals started flowing in, and the big foreign banks arrived, I knew Mediobanca had to transform," he said, speaking at the bank's headquarters, a 16th century aristocratic mansion nested behind Milan's La Scala opera theatre. Now, Nagel is marketing the proposed 6.3 billion euro Banca Generali deal using a 13% stake in its parent Generali as an alternative to the MPS offer, betting it could render Mediobanca too big for its smaller rival to swallow. He also hopes it will allow him to win over two investors who have long been a thorn in his side and are now backing MPS' takeover attempt - Delfin, the holding company of late Ray-Ban owner Leonardo Del Vecchio, and construction tycoon Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. Both, who are also major Generali shareholders, have repeatedly clashed with Nagel and accused him of relying excessively on income from the insurer while holding back its growth, which Nagel rejects. In the latest twist of the years-long confrontation, Delfin and Caltagirone have recently become the top shareholders in Mediobanca's suitor MPS. Nagel, who used to drive a Fiat Panda, rarely gives interviews and generally keeps a low profile, has come to embody the understated power and influence of the institution whose identity he is now fighting to preserve. Though one of his first moves as CEO was to secure retail funding for a bank that had no depositors, and he has steadily grown the lender's consumer finance business, Nagel sees a culture clash in a tie-up with a commercial bank like MPS. Still, he broke with Mediobanca's past in 2013, outlining plans to sell all of its corporate holdings except for the Generali stake, and to expand the investment banking business abroad, eventually buying up boutiques such as London-based Arma Partners. The wealth management business, meanwhile, progressed only slowly, taking off in earnest only in 2015-2016 when Mediobanca bought out its partner in a joint venture and made a series of acquisitions. Nagel hunted for years for a wealth management target, but the sector commanded big valuations and returns from the Generali stake he would dispose of to fund a deal were hard to match. Banca Generali would boost wealth management to account for 45% of revenues, from a quarter at present, and 50% of profits from one fifth now. "We'll achieve what would have otherwise taken us eight to 10 years," Nagel said when presenting the deal. Monday's vote will show whether his bank can ward off MPS and make that leap, but he can already count on some investors. "Mediobanca swapping the (Assicurazioni) Generali shares for Banca Generali is such a tectonic shift," said Cole Smead, CEO of Arizona-based Smead Capital Management, who welcomed the plan as an overdue modernisation of Mediobanca's capital structure. "They're cutting the umbilical cord, for us that's a good thing," Smead said. ($1 = 0.8753 euros)
