David Walker

• Lloyd's emphasises: 'We're an insurer, not an investor'

  18 September 2019

  Ten-fold jump in investment result in 1H prompts comment from CEO John Neal

• Lloyd's H1 profits rely on investment performance

  18 September 2019

  Net investment income hits £2.3bn

• Many motor insurers rely on investments, amid underwriting losses

  17 September 2019

  Insurance Risk Data industry report unveils overall underwriting loss

• Insurance Risk Data publishes 200-page Europe & Bermuda outsourcing report

  17 September 2019

  Details provided for 1,100 investment mandates

• Longer-term products push Chinese life firms into more property, alternatives

  16 September 2019

  Fitch expects Hong Kong-listed companies to want more strategic equities, too

• How Europe's insurers are falling out of love with their governments

  16 September 2019

  Local sovereigns often took biggest culls from general accounts in 2018, Eiopa data shows

• Eiopa reveals 12.9% of insurers’ investments exposed to climate risk

  13 September 2019

  EU financial regulators publish report on risk and vulnerability in EU financial system

• Investment returns of median insurer fail to cover guarantees

  12 September 2019

  Eiopa reveals a 1.4% shortfall

• BlackRock takes top prize in insurance mandates, Insurance Risk Data reveals

  11 September 2019

  BlackRock, Neam, Conning and Goldman Sachs are underwriters’ ‘favourites’ by the number of mandates awarded

• European insurers fall short on FX scenario testing

  05 September 2019

  Less than one-quarter of Europe’s largest firms publish results of currency stress testing, according to research by Insurance Risk Data. David Walker reports