David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - French mutual charts property risk, and course of plane carrying Antoine Saint-Exupéry

    02 December 2022

    Designers of SFCRs create some very colourful ways to show some very dry data

  • DEVK sees equity risk SCR leap 41% on alternatives programme

    02 December 2022

    But investment diversification benefit grew, too, in 2021

  • Coface branches into infrastructure equities

    01 December 2022

    Insurer lacks look-through on many funds

  • Polish insurer buys into 'COVID bonds'

    30 November 2022

    TUZ TUW faced banks shutting deposit structured amid low rates in 2021

  • Sanlam's Bermuda unit extends rent benefits to avoid COVID vacancies

    29 November 2022

    Group gave 100% discounts to some smaller tenants in 2021

  • How to bury a hatchet - Argo reveals its 'peace-plan' details struck with Voce Capital

    28 November 2022

    In its latest annual financial statement, Argo Group revealed its managers were 'exploring all options' for the re/insurer's future, including M&A/sale. David Walker examines the background

  • French health underwriter grows equities by 75%

    28 November 2022

    And trumpets ABS investment protection

  • Chart of the Week - Rising Rates Leave their Mark on General Accounts

    25 November 2022

    Depressing fixed income values, but raising yields in 2022...

  • 'Home time' for French school insurer after lesson in German, Swedish property

    25 November 2022

    Rouen-headquartered mutual re-focuses on debt backed by local properties

  • UK industry practitioners "quite worried" about PRA powers in reformed Solvency II

    24 November 2022

    WTW spells out its wide-ranging thoughts on Solvency II in/for the UK