David Walker

• Baloise manager leads Basel city pension into prime Genevan real estate

  16 December 2020

  Baloise Asset Management will manage the properties after helping buy them

• Times when investment yield boosted fortunes are gone

  07 December 2020

  S&P Global Ratings warned non-life firms to get their underwriting in order, David Walker reports

  

• Insurers reveal investment disappointments of pandemic

  03 December 2020

  LV, VIG and QIC Global aim fire and ire at property fund suspensions, some EM credit and debt yields

• ZZR cuts required yield at German life firms by one-third

  01 December 2020

  But industry body head says it's the correct mechanism to counter low interest rates

• From hurricanes to drought, climate risk hits US insurers' muni appetite

  30 November 2020

  Coastal states, even land-locked Nevada, face curbed demand from global warming

• VIG set to add more than €500m to general account after regional M&A

  30 November 2020

  M&A involved assets as well as liabilities for Austrian insurer

• Aviva updates market on bond downgrades

  26 November 2020

  UK insurer avoided defaults entirely in Q3

• Australian non-life insurers tumble to worst nine-month investment result in four years

  26 November 2020

  But Zurich and mutuals shine in Q3

• Generali boutique launches two infrastructure funds

  26 November 2020

  Parental €290m injection is about 10% of all Italian holdings in such funds

• Italian insurers would suffer double the pain on private debt downgrades

  25 November 2020

  In ESRB extreme 'fallen angels' test, Italian insurers lose 13% of surplus assets