David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment - Is the UK still a 'benchmark issuer' of green bonds?

    01 March 2023

    Net-zero investors may dream of all investments being 'green' - but for now it remains only a dream

  • Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs

    01 March 2023

    It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports

  • Falling investments sends Australian health firms' profits down 33%

    01 March 2023

    Medibank singles out "manager underperformance" in property mandate

  • Chart of the Week - Russia's insurers, one year on...

    24 February 2023

    Insurers in Russia face a regulatory and investment landscape that would be hardly recognisable from pre-war times

  • AXA's investment spread quadruples for new German life & savings policies

    23 February 2023

    German spread benefits from withering of guaranteed policy rates

  • Some alternative capital investors feel "taken advantage of," says Swiss Re CFO

    23 February 2023

    Investors withdrawing capital will stay away until industry addresses climate natcat concerns

  • Comment - Russian CIOs confront their own 2032 'transitional measure'

    22 February 2023

    Bank of Russia's GA write-down warnings put Frank Grund's words in Germany in the pale

  • Traditional risk management fails for timing transition investments, ACPR says

    22 February 2023

    Regulator's research examines when best to buy/sell biomass and coal assets

  • Hansainvest extends Cologne office rental for PwC

    22 February 2023

    Decade added to consultancy's tenancy

  • Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope

    21 February 2023

    With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports