David Walker

• "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

• Rates-induced corrosion hit govvies and credit in Europe's GA throughout 2022

  15 May 2023

  Direct debt and credit holdings have contacted for eight quarters running

• Third parties flow €5bn into AXA's asset management in Q1 - while parent retrieved €3bn

  15 May 2023

  Unit-linked flows fall 17% including 14% in France

• AllianzGI and PIMCO's returns decline to €723m

  12 May 2023

  Allianz confident in US asset exposures amid asset managers' lowered operating profits

• Chart of the Week - Will new MA liabilities give UK CIOs fresh investment opportunities?

  12 May 2023

  Whitehall has mooted income protection and with-profits - a £6.6bn market - for MA inclusion