David Walker

• Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform

  21 January 2025

  Insurers' respective multi-affiliate platforms would be combined in €1.9trn asset manager

• APAC Weekly - APAC's public natcat reinsurers watch California (tie itself in knots)

  21 January 2025

  State's lawmakers may have shot their state in the foot with well-meaning rules to shore up insurance

• Comment: Unusual US bond issuer plans birth by fire

  20 January 2025

  LA fires are spurring innovative thinking about how to cover Californian homeowners

• Sumitomo Life outsources for local PE/buyout exposure growth

  20 January 2025

  Japanese lifer positions fund purchase as boost for emerging managers

• Californian lawmakers open possibility for bond issues to cover FAIR Plan claims

  20 January 2025

  State-established insurer of last resort faces significant bill from LA fires

• Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

  17 January 2025

  Fund invests in research via underlying Candriam product

• NFRA reminds China's insurers about options for allocating to local property

  17 January 2025

  Authorities are co-ordinating on more market stability for investors and lenders alike

• Chart of the Week: Did LA's insurers choose the wrong fire-risk properties to avoid, before the city's trial by fire?

  17 January 2025

  Data shows widespread non-renewals in fire-prone California in 2023, but maybe in the 'wrong' areas

• Unipol's BTP exposure drops below one-third of portfolio

  16 January 2025

  Morningstar DBRS has called the 30% allocation "significant", however

• Just Group's inhouse team originated £1bn of illiquids in 2024

  16 January 2025

  Total illiquid asset origination jumped 40% at UK group