(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 15 - Generali on Friday posted 9-month operating profit up 7.9% to 5.4 billion euros.
    This was mainly thanks to the life and asset & wealth management segments, the Trieste-based insurance giant said.
    Gross premiums rose to 70.7 billion (+18.1%), driven by both segments, life (+23.3%) and non-life (+9.8%).
    Normalized net profit fell to 2.9 billion (-3.3%) but excluding the non-recurring capital gain recorded in 2023 it would have grown by 3.4%.
    Net profit grew to 3 billion (+5%).
    In the third quarter, operating result ran to 1,674 million (+25%), normalized profit to 855 million (+31.7%) and net profit to 909 million (+57.1%).
    Generali stock rose 4.5% on the better than expected results.
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