David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - The thorny issue of liquidity and alternative credit

    17 October 2025

    Why private credit might (slowly) be moving away from the investing world's version of Hotel California...

  • Secret CRO: Solvency II adds bureaucracy to our days, without 'solving' our challenges

    15 October 2025

    A CRO gives their honest answer - is the Solvency II balance sheet worthwhile?

  • Comment: Insurers outsource gold investing amid fears of market boom turning to bust

    14 October 2025

    From WisdomTree to ETFs, buying into metals is occurring from France, to Germany, to Lloyd's

  • Tokio Marine AM to launch tokenised Japanese PE fund

    13 October 2025

    Affiliate says fund is first PE fund of funds for local retail market

  • Fukoku Mutual Life expands outsourcing partnerships with gold fund

    13 October 2025

    Three new funds added to individual DC programme

  • Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire puts JPY 1.5bn into Yokohama city bond

    13 October 2025

    Proceeds will bolster city's flood resilience

  • Chart of the Week - As owners of European insurers, do PE/AM managers 'back the right horses'?

    10 October 2025

    Insurance Risk Data's latest research on outsourcing by, and the ownership of, European insurers reveals the answers

  • Comment - How Solvency II (and ChatGPT) answer all the questions a CEO never asks

    10 October 2025

    Is Europe's insurance industry at risk of falling victim to 'Voltaire's Bastards'?

  • Insurance Risk Data to publish 7th European/UK insurance investment outsourcing report

    09 October 2025

    Report has 360 pages of proprietary data and narrative analysis

  • APAC Weekly - Aussies and Kiwis 'win' gold and bronze in natcat costs per capita so far this decade

    07 October 2025

    But both nations lag the US by a distance, since the 1980s