David Walker

• Insurers's SFCRs face up to the worst of climate change

  07 August 2023

  Aegon uses Ortec Finance to model 'failed transition'

• IFRS 17: Are insurers ready for the same scrutiny they impose on their investees

  07 August 2023

  New accounting standards, including IFRS 17, are seeking to standardise insurance accounting globally and better reflect insurers financial positions to their investors. But is their message loud, or more importantly, clear? David Walker examines

  

• Chart of the week - Are insurers a worthwhile investment?

  04 August 2023

  Insurers themselves seem to think 'largely not', as relative stock performance proves variable

• After 15 years, student-actuary to become PIC's next head originator

  03 August 2023

  Mitul Magudia will replace Jay Shah, who is retiring after just as long at PIC

• Achmea acknowledges inflation "cratered" bond markets in 2022

  02 August 2023

  Equities and fixed income pain was felt across Dutch group

• French units go 'lite' on solvency reporting in truncated reports

  02 August 2023

  SFCRs are already not all uniform in their length or format, Insurance Risk Data finds

• Paper losses swipe over 20 percentage points from European lifers' investment results

  01 August 2023

  Sector was 25% short of meeting its promises, based on all-in investment result

• German affiliated managers push further into real assets

  31 July 2023

  Munich Re and Signal Iduna managers announce deals and recruitment

• Comment - In a time of climate crisis, what might the superhero Captain Hindsight tell Europe's CIOs?

  28 July 2023

  CIOs and CUOs need to start twisting thumbscrews on fossil fuel, if the worst is still to come

• Chart of the Week - Breakdown of market risk SCR of AEMA group subsidiaries, 2022 (%)

  28 July 2023

  A 'group market risk SCR' can mask very divergent risk-taking at subsidiaries