David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • ITAS emphasises liquidity management as lapse risk jumps

    22 May 2023

    Italian group revealed yield on four main life products in SFCR

  • Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk

    19 May 2023

    Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk

  • Australia's MLC Life appoints new CIO

    19 May 2023

    Incumbent moving to AM in India with lifer's parent, Nippon Life

  • Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022

    18 May 2023

    Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports

  • "Don't bet interest rates will stay high forever", Zurich CFO warns

    17 May 2023

    Zurich has inked $1.8bn reinsurance deal with Resolution for US life policies, as part of investment pivot

  • Conduit Re says 'short duration' means 'reinvestment opportunity'

    17 May 2023

    Revealing a 2.4-year average duration in its investment portfolio in Q1

  • European lapses hit five-year high - but insurers trim cash and liquid assets

    16 May 2023

    Median insurer's bank investments rose to 13.5% of assets in Q4, EIOPA finds

  • Talanx plays it safe with "low beta" portfolio

    15 May 2023

    Green investments retraced in value, mildly, from €8bn in December

  • Northern exposure - equities bestow mixed blessings on Nordic/Scandinavian insurers in 2022

    15 May 2023

    Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic insurers' faith in equities was not always misplaced. David Walker reports

  • FWD seeks new CFO as Jon Nielsen announces move

    15 May 2023

    Nielsen will stay with FWD until August