David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Solvency of Bermudian insurance groups, and why it matters for their GAs

    24 November 2023

    Solvency cover was adequate at Bermuda's re/insurers in 2022 - on average, at least

  • Comment - Do Bermuda's CIOs earn too much?

    22 November 2023

    Insurance Risk Data analysed the CIOs' pay-packets in a chapter of its research listing over 100 names of investment decision-makers

  • Comment: What (and when) Bermuda's re/insurers pay hedge fund managers

    21 November 2023

    Details of service agreements between 117 re/insurers and 87 managers are in Insurance Risk Data's latest Bermuda outsourcing report

  • Comment - More money than God? Manulife delivers Michael Hintze (perhaps) his biggest payday

    17 November 2023

    As CQS is bought by Manulife IM, one wonders 'are hedge fund managers paid too much'?

  • Chart of the week: How insurers' market risk SCR looks - in a time of crisis

    17 November 2023

    When markets slump CIOs don't just watch their market risk SCR gyrate - they act on it

  • Insurance Risk Data to publish third annual Bermuda insurance outsourcing report

    14 November 2023

    Research analysis outsourcing, IMAs with managers, changing regulations and more

  • Chart of the Week: Where foreign FX non-life premiums may need backing with foreign-FX assets

    10 November 2023

    Europe's non-life insurers underwrite (and so, must invest) globally

  • Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit

    06 November 2023

    Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements

  • Chart of the Week - The world's mutual insurers and ESG/climate investing

    03 November 2023

    From impact to renewables to SDGs - mutual insurers show appetite for 'doing good'

  • Mutual insurers align over $1trn of assets to sustainable frameworks

    02 November 2023

    ICMIF survey shows 32% annual jump in global sector assets aligned to frameworks