David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Thai regulator takes action on embattled KWI group

    03 June 2025

    Life firm had not assigned assets for liabilities correctly, OIC found

  • TDF Financial Life backs sustainable bond hoping to control zoonotic disease

    03 June 2025

    Japanese lifer also helping insure investors' subscriptions for NISA products

  • Chart of the Week - What Japan's lifers want from their shareholdings

    30 May 2025

    LIAJ survey finds improvement since 2024, but from ROE to shareholder returns and reporting, shortcomings persist in investees' deliverables

  • Japan Post Insurance aims to implement impact investing at local stock exchange

    30 May 2025

    A fund run by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp will focus on listed companies

  • Tokio Marine reveals 6% drag on business rate of return from strategic shares

    30 May 2025

    Japanese group also shows CRE and CLO allocations for March

  • Muted offshore investments and high hedging ratios shield Japan from FX risk, says S&P Global

    29 May 2025

    Private credit/debt investments are roughly half US/European levels, agency adds

  • Chinese sci-tech? "This is a great time to buy!"

    29 May 2025

    China's NFRA, PboC and CSRC are behind sci-tech and investors should take note

  • Taiwan discusses life insurer solvency and TW-ICS rules after FX market shock

    29 May 2025

    New regulations are due to take effect next January

  • SFCR 2025 - Lapse risk keeps pressure up on Italian lifers in 2024

    28 May 2025

    2023 may have been the peak of policyholders cashing in contracts early, but last year was not that much easier for Italian life insurers

  • Italy's lifers tackled lapse risk with action on investments in 2024

    28 May 2025

    SFCRs show range of ways life insurers sought to stem, or meet, surrenders last year