David Walker

• 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

• 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