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Fondiaria-Sai

company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ578532 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fondiaria-Sai S.p.A. was an Italian financial services company based in Turin, founded in 2002 by the merger of La Fondiaria Assicurazioni and Società Assicuratrice Industriale. In 2014 the company was merged by incorporation of Unipol Assicurazioni, Milano Assicurazioni and Premafin in UnipolSai.

The company was particularly active in the insurance sector, where it underwrites life, property, casualty and marine cover.

The company was listed on the Borsa Italiana and was a constituent of the FTSE MIB index.

Fondiaria-Sai in 2007 bought a 100% stake in Serbia's DDOR Novi Sad insurance company.

In 2007 50% stake of Popolare Vita was bought from Cattolica Assicurazioni via Banco Popolare.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fondiaria-Sai” as company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2014, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-12-31. The account is most persuasive where Fondiaria-Sai and company can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q578532. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2014 and 2007.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fondiaria-Sai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fondiaria-Sai primary sources, Fondiaria-Sai archive and Fondiaria-Sai research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fondiaria-Sai”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Fondiaria-Sai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.