David Walker

• French insurers win ACPR praise for climate action

  04 May 2021

  Regulator finds limited investment impact in research on climate change shocks

• Axa posts loss on cash fund redemption in Germany as negative yields bite

  04 May 2021

  Zurich unit seeks infrastructure, others want private investments, mortgages/loans

• Chart of the week - Why the MA matters...

  03 May 2021

  ...and not just to insurers

• PRA warns life firms over illiquid assets as MA hits £335bn

  30 April 2021

  Life firms wanting new asset classes must expect "challenge" from UK insurance regulator

• Equities and hedge funds inspire Varma's best quarterly result

  29 April 2021

  Investments made 6%, led by private equity

• NNIP's greatest challenge lies ahead as NN mulls "strategic options"

  28 April 2021

  Breadth of offering may come in handy for NN's affiliate

• UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

  27 April 2021

  And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

• The Famous Five - How CIOs trumped underwriters, again, at Lloyd's

  26 April 2021

  If you want to know when the underwriters at Lloyd's last beat its investors, cast your mind (all the way) back to 2015. The bad luck of Lloyd's underwriters is clear. The good run of its investors is largely to plan, David Walker finds.

  

• Axa commits €2bn to COVID loan fund for SMEs

  26 April 2021

  French insurer reveal their support in 2020 solvency and financial condition reports

• COMMENT: German fixed income - a love affair turned sour, or about to?

  23 April 2021

  What keeps German insurers' CIOs awake at night