David Walker

• Allianz UK adds to infrastructure loans and private debt for yield and GA breadth

  01 May 2023

  Investment income rose in 2022 by £16m to £64m, its SFCR shows

• Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022

  01 May 2023

  Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates

• S&P Global sees UK industry trimming of illiquids

  01 May 2023

  EMEA life customers to "remain loyal", curbing lapse risk, rating agency says

• Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

  28 April 2023

  Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

• From Great Depression to Germany leaving the euro, Danes reveal what 'investment stress' really means

  27 April 2023

  Some SFCR stress tests outdo FSA's planned national testing

• Danish supervisor spells out national stress tests

  27 April 2023

  Market scenarios more severe than those presented in some SFCRs

• How the matching adjustment has 'misfired' at many Spanish lifers

  27 April 2023

  The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very mixed outcomes, David Walker reports.

  

• Large insurance groups' solvency budged only mildly, if spreads worsen

  26 April 2023

  Analysis by IRD backs Moody's findings on major groups' strong ratios

• Half of European insurers' investments are rated Baa or worse, Moody's estimates

  26 April 2023

  But AT1 debt under 1% of rated underwriters' financial bond holdings

• Aviva Capital Partners to inject £20m into low-carbon modular housebuilder

  25 April 2023

  Sustainable infrastructure "central" to UK net-zero, CEO says