Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Alongside my courses at Bocconi University, I designed and implemented several executive courses and programs for global leading financial institutions, delivered as a member of the SDA Bocconi School of Management’s faculty.
Biographical note
I am a professor of financial markets and institutions at Bocconi University, where I deal with investments, insurance, and pension funds topics. I have been Visiting Professor at the Politecnico Milano, the MIB Trieste School of Management and the CEA (now Insurance Europe) Insurance Training Task Force. Recently I’ve been appointed scientific partner of the Osservatorio sul Welfare by the Luiss Business School.
Thanks to a research work on how to define the investment strategy for retirement savings, I won (with F. Saita) the Research Incentives Award established by Bocconi University. Alongside my courses at Bocconi University, I designed and implemented several executive courses and programs for global leading financial institutions, delivered as a member of the SDA Bocconi School of Management’s faculty.
Research interests
My research interests include insurance companies, pension funds, asset management, strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, ALM, capital allocation, risk management, corporate governance, and regulation.
Throughout my career, I have had the chance to enhance the understanding of my research interests by holding several related professional roles such as chairman, independent board member, and advisor to global asset managers, investment banks, top-tier insurance companies, pension funds, consulting firms, IT companies, and family offices.
Moreover, thanks to an academic leave, I gained the corporate perspective by leading both the Italy Institutional Client Business and the Italy Financial Institutions Group as a full-time managing director at BlackRock.
Inter alia, I have been a member of the EIOPA Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group, a participant in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction of the United Nations project, a scientific partner of the B20 Italy 2021, and a referee for the ESMA Working Paper Series.
Working papers
Il prezzo del prodotto assicurativo: un approccio finanziario
WP n. 10 , Cerap, Università Bocconi, 1995
Applying constant proportion portfolio insurance to guaranteed return investment products: an empirical analysis
Working Paper Newfin 5/03; Università L. Bocconi, Milano 2003
Selected Publications
L'Asset Liability Management nelle imprese di assicurazione sulla vita
Quaderni ISVAP n. 12, 2021
L'ALM nelle assicurazioni vita: obiettivi, problemi aperti e metodologie di analisi
Diritto ed Economia dell'Assicurazione, 2020
Asset Liability Management: Comparing models in the Italian insurance landscape,
The Boston Consulting Group, 2014
Why are insurance companies different?
Geneva papers on Risk and insurance. Theory, 2008
Potential drawbacks of price-based accounting in the insurance sector
Geneva papers on Risk and insurance. Theory, 2007
I prodotti assicurativi gestiti in logica di Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance
Osservatorio sull’innovazione finanziaria, 2004
Il risparmio previdenziale
Bancaria Editrice, 2000
L'identificazione del rischio di business interruption
Milano, EGEA, 1999
La gestione dei rischi di interruzione di attività
Milano, EGEA, 1999
Gli strumenti innovativi di finanziamento dei rischi catastrofali
Milano, EGEA, 1999
Le imprese e la gestione del rischio ambientale: profili aziendali, giuridici e assicurativi
Milano, EGEA, 1999
La definizione della strategia di investimento nei fondi pensione
Centro di Studi BancarI, 1998
Risk management: strumenti e politiche per la gestione dei rischi puri di impresa
Milano, EGEA, 1996