Massimiliano Sessanta

Massimiliano’s career is being dedicated since the very beginning to support investment decisions evolving within the assets management industry, by covering roles of increasing responsibility inside complex and competitive organizations across different locations in Italy and abroad. He’s professional experience began in 1999, as equity analyst, contributing financial analyses covering listed companies and producing business case studies for Italian Institutional asset management companies. Those studies were being used internally by equity portfolio managers to support their investing activities. During that period he had the opportunity to meet the top management of listed companies and the sell side financial analysts of the main international brokers. Since April 2002, he joined the Risk Management department of Generali Investments with a change of role that coincided with the implementation phase of enhancements to the Risk Management System in use to monitor the risk return profile of MtM funds under management. At the end of the project he became responsible of the unit focused on the implementation of processes for the evaluation (pricing) of financial assets. During the same period he coordinated both the validation of pricing models and the monitoring of the pricing activities being performed by more operational units. During 2007 he moved to Paris (France) to become the head of Risk Management of the French branch of Generali Investments, since then, before being merged into Generali Investments Europe, together with its Italian and German peers, Generali Investments France was yet an active manager of financial assets on behalf of French, Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish insurance companies. Through that role Massimiliano had the opportunity to contribute to develop a financial risk management department aligned with group policies within a local context in which the Risk Management was traditionally been perceived as very close to an Internal Control function, if not for its more quantitative biased approach. During the period spent in France Massimiliano had the opportunity to proactively at broaden and deepen the interactions of the Risk management with other departments: research (Macro, Micro and Quantitative) and the Front Office European leaders of asset classes’ management (Sovereign, Corporate, and Equity Derivatives). In 2012 he returned to Italy to take the responsibility of the Risk Factor Analysis within Generali Investments Europe, the captive Asset Management Company of Generali Assicurazioni. Massimiliano is now Head of Risk Advisory within the same organization.