David Walker

When actuarial science gets political

German insurers warn EU policy makers not to try and fix what is not broken in Solvency II, they also advise against politicising the rules which would lead to a skewed version of risk. David Walker reports

Chart of the week - Where Europe's health insurers invest

'Significant shunt' in inflation on the cards, Signal Iduna warns

Mid-tier German insurers reveal fall in yields - and how to beat it

German life firms reveal which investments got sold to feed ZZR

But Allianz Leben says the reserve aids systemic sustainability

Bank of England warns insurers of ignoring climate in corporate bond investments

Blindly replicating market no longer "truly market-neutral" given climate change, says governor

COMMENT: Hedge fund activists - new, unlikely allies in insurers' climate fight?

Patient insurers and agitating activists once sat at opposite ends of the shareholding spectrum. Climate change might be changing that.

Chart of the Week - How Europe's mid-sized insurers invest their general accounts

General account allocations analysed for 140 different categorisations of European insurers

Generali aims to become €500bn investment powerhouse

Generali's and Cattolica's post-M&A general account would still lag behind AXA and Allianz

Jérôme Haegeli - Swiss Re's man with the long-term (green infrastructure) plan

Swiss Re's chief economist deals with black and white facts of the here-and-now. But our future, he hopes, will be somewhat greener, as David Walker discovers

Chart of the week

Why markets, not pandemics, might keep Thomas Buberl awake