David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week: Solvency capital charges, and what a cactus and CIO (should) have in common

    10 March 2023

    Average Solvency II capital charges by insurers' GA sizes reveal some unexpected findings

  • China proposes folding CBIRC into new body

    09 March 2023

    New regulator would sit directly below State Council

  • Hannover Re pockets nearly €500m from linkers as GA returns beat plan

    09 March 2023

    Nearly a quarter of 2022 ordinary income came from the inflation instruments

  • Europe's life giants trip the lite switch firmly 'on'

    08 March 2023

    Thomas Buberl, and Oliver Bäte are men with a mission, to preach the gospel of low-capital product. But will their customers buy it? David Walker asks

  • Comment: CIOs enjoy strong tailwinds of goodwill in 'transition GAs', in a ride that CUOs might only dream of

    08 March 2023

    Why a CIO's life with the media can be so much touchy-feelier than a CUO's, in our era of climate change

  • Italian lifers keep more unit-linked product returns than customers led to expect

    03 March 2023

    IVASS reveals unit-linked policy sales growth

  • Comment - Is an 'AI CIO' better than a CIO?

    03 March 2023

    When will machine learning algorithm be running the GA?

  • Nippon Life "optimistic" about Scope 3 inclusion in future

    02 March 2023

    Investees providing data might act as guide, and bellwethers

  • Low-carbon benchmarks risk pulling assets from EMs, warns Prudential

    01 March 2023

    Insurer urges data providers to significantly broaden EM coverage

  • Large UK local sovereign / premium mismatch unearthed by BIS

    01 March 2023

    Across EEA 51% of sovereigns in GAs are local, EIOPA data shows