David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Japan's life insurance trade body polls lifers and investees on key investment issues

    25 April 2023

    JLIA unearths moments of discord on key issues affecting both parties

  • CBIRC pulls industry up on sometimes "weak" investment look-through

    24 April 2023

    Non-standard asset transparency sometimes lacking, warns Chinese regulator

  • Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)

    21 April 2023

    UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios

  • French lifers emphasise GA asset liquidity in fight against lapse risk

    21 April 2023

    Moody's report yesterday highlighted French insurer vulnerability to lapse risk as interest rates rise

  • Comment: Re/insurers risk being at cross purposes with conflicting climate stances

    20 April 2023

    Hannover Re, Munich Re and Zurich are staunch NZAOA members, but recently left the corresponding body for underwriters

  • GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%

    19 April 2023

    But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products

  • SFCR Season - How Europe's CIOs investments paid off, or not, in 2022

    18 April 2023

    Insurance Asset Risk launches a season of features analysing how European CIOs won, and lost, money for their employers, in 2022

  • P+ Pensionskassen for Akademikere's illiquids perform in falling year

    17 April 2023

    But Dane writes down alts harshly to prevent iniquity between members payouts

  • HK think-tank proposes 'green' and infrastructure investment benefits

    17 April 2023

    HK Federation of Insurers' body responded to government report

  • Mapfre's Spanish unit says Ukraine conflict rendered economists' forecasts "useless"

    14 April 2023

    Outlook for 2023 "looks very confusing", it added