David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong

    05 June 2025

    Deal involves "materially all risks" linked to the policy book

  • Mayday! FX volatility hits Taiwan's lifers but no crash landings are forecast

    04 June 2025

    When the Taiwan/US FX rate leaped 8% in two days last month, the same might well have happened to the heartrate of CIOs at life insurers, as David Walker examines

  • Chinese insurers build expertise in using derivatives, and AI, in investments

    04 June 2025

    IAMA has convened seminars for about 200 insurance attendees recently

  • 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM

    04 June 2025

    Ping AN AM, PICC AM and Taiking among managers with upbeat assessments of status quo

  • Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing

    04 June 2025

    GIAJ also recommends a definition for 'alternative' consistent with other sectors

  • Investment returns top €1bn from asset-intensive work at RGA's Irish unit

    04 June 2025

    Subsidiary's SFCRs since 2016 show its funded re investment results in isolation

  • RGA announces $1bn coinsurance deal with Dai-ichi Life

    04 June 2025

    Follows previous Asian deals in Japan and South Korea

  • APAC Weekly - World Gold Council guides China's insurance CIOs on finer points of bullion investing

    03 June 2025

    Gold investment pilot scheme for a handful of insurers was announced in February

  • Fitch says Dai-ichi Life and M&G tie-up mutually beneficial

    03 June 2025

    Agency foresees opening up of APAC life outsourcing for UK asset manager

  • Taiwan's lifers bolster capital and FX reserves after market volatility

    03 June 2025

    Country's dollar jumped 8% against greenback in two days last month