David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment - UK lifers could quietly stampede through MA's open door

    28 April 2022

    HM Treasury has published MA and Solvency II reform proposals

  • UK government publishes review of Solvency II

    28 April 2022

    Open for consultation until July

  • China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts

    27 April 2022

    David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy

  • Rothesay investment result drops 99% but income remains stable

    26 April 2022

    UK life insurers responded to interest rates moving in 2021

  • Royal London reveals first year's benefit using MA

    25 April 2022

    Some 18 UK life undertakings got £76bn capital relief from mechanism, in 2021

  • Chart of the Week: UK life CIOs' reactions to pandemic revealed

    22 April 2022

    UK life CIOs are getting more of the risk budget, and 'picking their ride'

  • CIOs win more of insurers' risk budgets in pandemic

    22 April 2022

    SFCRs reveal early trends in COVID-era allocating by Europe's CIOs

  • China's Sunshine Insurance reveals outsourcing details and fees for affiliate

    22 April 2022

    Chinese insurers formally announced IPO plans in Hong Kong

  • Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises

    22 April 2022

    Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world

  • IVASS consults on significant investment reform of pension products

    22 April 2022

    And warns insurers about "complex" capital optimisation tools of asset managers