With government bonds and real estate looking less attractive, the time is right for robo-advisers to step in and offer something a little different to Italian investors, believes Mario Bortoli, CEO of digital wealth manager Euclidea 

Generali Investments’ chief executive Santo Borsellino made growing the Italian firm’s third party business a “key priority” when he took control in 2013. So far the decision has paid off

With half of all Italian private wealth managed by retail banks there is huge potential for private banks to expand domestically

The structured products market is smaller and very different to how it looked in its pre-crisis days but these vehicles still have a role to play in client portfolios

Clients are looking for “useful” private banking advice that deals with their needs rather than the product-pushing of old, believes Dario Prunotto, UniCredit’s head of private banking

Pioneer Investments’ Sandro Pierri discusses his ambitious plans to expand the funds house by branching out further from its Italian heartlands and the challenges of making money from fixed income