David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy

    04 August 2022

    Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks

  • Ageas life unit ceases outsourcing

    04 August 2022

    Portuguese unit revealed cessation in its solvency and financial condition report

  • Axa keeps distancing from market risks in 1H

    03 August 2022

    Alternatives reinvestment yields still outpacing 'core' fixed income

  • Russian investment impairments hit Generali's H1 result

    02 August 2022

    Fixed income and Ingosstrakh stake culprits

  • EIOPA reveals lifers lost money investing in 2021

    02 August 2022

    Performance was life firms' worst since 2017, risk dashboard shows

  • Intesa San Paolo insurance grows H1 operating income

    01 August 2022

    Contributing 8% to group's consolidated operating income

  • Generali and Unipol assessed for BTP exposure as Italy demoted

    01 August 2022

    S&P Global Ratings has Italy's outlook to stable

  • Chart of the week - German insurers' 'happiest' line of underwriting

    29 July 2022

    A clue: Germans are not most joyful when in traditional policy units, GDV finds

  • Shareholdings and Russian impairments halve Swiss Re's 1H investment returns

    29 July 2022

    But reinvestment yield more than triples

  • IFRS 9 lops 16% off 1H investment returns at Scor Investments

    28 July 2022

    Unit's 4.1% reinvestment yield almost doubled year on year