How a EUR 375+ Billion Global Asset Manager Modernized its Risk Analytics
Generali Asset Management teamed with MSCI to transform its risk infrastructure.
OverviewUpgrading risk analytics for speed, flexibility and scale
Generali Asset Management, which manages EUR 377.6 billion in assets,1 sought to upgrade its risk analytics framework after experiencing major delays and instability in daily reporting runs. Delayed access to critical insights limited its visibility into portfolio risk and impeded decision-making.2
Collaborating with MSCI, Generali Asset Management modernized its data integration and analytics workflow, expediting risk analysis to improve its processing speed and flexibility.
Processing time for reporting jobs through MSCI’s risk analytics was reduced by over 70% ultimately resulting in 40% end to end improvement for Generali Asset Management’s process. The transformation strengthened its operational flexibility, reduced total cost of ownership and paved the way for broader modernization initiatives, including new risk and performance visualization and front-office collaboration.
Spanning active funds and bespoke multi-asset solutions across public and private markets.
Reporting job time reduced by more than two-thirds through MSCI risk analytics optimization.
In end-to-end process, accelerating delivery of risk analytics and decision insights.
ChallengeOvercoming data bottlenecks and delayed insights
Generali Asset Management,3 part of Generali Investments, the asset management arm of Assicurazioni Generali Group, is a European investment specialist offering a wide range of active funds and bespoke solutions across both public and private markets.
As a leader in multi-asset and insurance-based solutions, the firm relies on timely and accurate assessment of portfolio risks to succeed. But as it evolved over the years, the number of its portfolios grew and its use cases significantly diversified, outgrowing its infrastructure. Its technology, designed with a sequential approach to data analysis, was no longer in sync with the firm’s needs, impeding the risk analytics team’s ability to make timely decisions.
The firm faced:
- Delayed risk data due to lengthy processing runs.
- Growing regulatory demands requiring timely and reliable reporting.
- Limited flexibility for reruns or data corrections due to legacy integration with the trading system.
- An architecture mismatch between older workflows and sophisticated analytics needs.
Generali Asset Management needed a modern, flexible and resilient framework capable of handling large-scale analytics workloads while providing immediate portfolio insights.
Before MSCI upgrade
After MSCI upgrade
Action
Generali Asset Management collaborated with MSCI to transform its risk analytics infrastructure. Building on its existing use of MSCI solutions; including regulatory reporting, liquidity analytics, market and credit risk and portfolio stress testing; the firm worked with MSCI’s analytics team to upgrade the stability, performance and scalability of its systems.
MSCI supported a multi-step transformation by:
Increasing compute efficiency
Reduced bottlenecks and accelerated workflows.
Improving data integration
Created a smoother, more flexible workflow management.
Upgrading workflow management
Enabled scaled processing, faster data processing and improved flexibility.
What MSCI delivered
Generali Asset Management modernized its multi-asset risk analytics framework, harnessing MSCI’s technology to enhance computational scale and volume for processing data and statistics, optimize data integration, and deliver faster, statistically robust insights across portfolios.
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“We’ve never received our data so early in the day before. With MSCI’s technology-led consultative approach, our risk team was able to deliver analytics 40% faster, significantly improving our process stability. We ultimately redefined how we share and consume portfolio analyses across the organization.”
Impact Adopting new culture of risk management
The modernized system enabled Generali Asset Management to significantly enhance the efficiency, resilience and scalability of its risk analytics. The change enabled their risk teams to act immediately, marking a cultural shift in how the firm uses data-driven insights to inform its investment decisions.
The asset manager achieved:
40% faster processing
Reduced total analytics run time from over 10 hours to under three, enabling faster delivery of insights.
Greater agility
Enhanced system flexibility, allowing quicker scenario reruns and data corrections, supporting faster and more confident decisions.
Reduced cost and complexity
Streamlined workflows, minimizing redundant operations and reduced total cost of ownership.
1 Source: Generali Asset Management S.p.A. Società di gestione del risparmio (“Generali Asset Management”) as at Q2 2025, net of double counting.
2 Generali Asset Management is a client of MSCI Inc. and consented to its inclusion in this case study. Generali Asset Management did not receive any compensation in connection with this article. Any results achieved by Generali Asset Management are specific to its use case and are cited for informational purposes only. Other investors may not experience similar outcomes.
3 Full name: Generali Asset Management S.p.A. Società di gestione del risparmio.