David Walker

• Embattled Thai insurer gets M&A offer for affiliated manager

  03 January 2025

  M&A would raise much-needed capital that its regulator demands

• Nippon Life makes first green loan to local financial firm

  03 January 2025

  The JPY 300m facility was lifer's first such loan

• Nippon Life and AXA Life team up on unit-linked policy sales

  03 January 2025

  Japanese insurers have collaborated on health business for 10 years

• Chart of the Week - What Solvency UK means for the UK General Account

  03 January 2025

  Last year the PRA announced raised thresholds for UK insurers to be subject to 'Solvency UK'

• Japanese insurers flock to country's Asset Owner Principles

  02 January 2025

  Government distributed precepts for institutional investors in August

• Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond

  02 January 2025

  Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations

• Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"

  02 January 2025

  Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio

• APAC Weekly - The Year in Review, and the Year Ahead

  31 December 2024

  APAC's re/insurance industry and landscape for cover gave endless stories of change, many of prudent management, and of thoughtful industry leaders

• Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

  30 December 2024

  CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built

• Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat

  27 December 2024

  Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change