"Larger insurance intervention in the economy can only happen under certain conditions." He said it in a hearing in Parliament on the Def Dario Focarelli, director general of theAnia, explaining that "insurance companies aim primarily to provide protection to policyholders and are therefore interested in forms of investment that support returns without involving excessive risk-taking: in this regard, it would be appropriate that, above all to raise the investment of medium-small insurance companies, were envisaged initiatives supported by the guarantee, even limited to a portion of the investment, from public or private institutions".
With reference to the measures of the new Finance package for growth 2.0, "the incentive for retail investment in the real economy - added Focarelli - could be achieved through the reduction of the tax burden on savings products with a long-term time horizon".
In terms of pensions, however, according to the CEO of the Association of Insurance Companies "it is necessary to revitalize membership of supplementary pensions through greater awareness of citizens on their own pension needs and an action to raise awareness of the advantages of joining the complementary pension”, as well as “a simplification of the tax rules on pension funds, with a rethinking of the taxation on returns”.
Within the anti-poverty policies and welfare support "also includes the allocation (90 million) provided for by the Stability Law for people with serious disabilities and without family support", recalled Focarelli, stating that it is "an intervention that can be shared, which could however be made more incisive through measures such as the tax deductibility of all expenses incurred for life or health insurance coverage for people with disabilities and their families” and “the exclusion from ISEE of insurance services provided to people with disabilities”.
