David Walker

• Chart of the Week - Bermuda as a magnet for life policy reserves, backed by private credit

  20 June 2025

  Moody's Ratings report charts an industry "transformed" by reinsurance, and alternative asset manager tie-ups

  

• Comment - In a nation of punters, APRA places big bet on annuity sales

  19 June 2025

  The regulator wants more certain income for retirees - who are busy punting on 'The Big Win'

• Van Lanschot Kempen wins local advisory and fiduciary outsourcing mandate

  18 June 2025

  Coöperatie Noordhollandsche also announces broad custodianship mandate, in SFCR

• APAC Weekly: Is Australia edging towards a matching adjustment?

  17 June 2025

  Reforms to the illiquidity premium that APRA proposes for annuity writers echoes elements of MAs, near and far

  

• Riksbyggen and Newsec win SEK 65bn Swedish property outsourcing deals

  17 June 2025

  Mandates will begin next January

• Schroders recruits Zurich alumnus in boost of client-facing APAC roles

  16 June 2025

  Matt Oomen also worked at BNY Investments

• Japan's non-life net income leaped 47% last year on keiretsu sell-downs

  16 June 2025

  Falls in local shareholdings dented solvency of country's lifers, in year to March

• SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024

  13 June 2025

  Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users

  

• Challenger welcomes Apra's consultation on life illiquidity premium

  13 June 2025

  Annuity writer calls proposals "significant improvement" on current capital settings

• Fitch cites Taiwan FX hedging costs for TransGlobe Life's negative rating watch

  13 June 2025

  TGL's mismatch-hedging to "come under pressure" after "surge in hedging costs," Fitch predicts