David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Aviva stress-tests investment outsourcing costs

    03 June 2020

    Aviva plc subsidiaries are stress-testing investment outsourcing fees as part of reckoning how sensitive their solvency coverage is to undesirable scenarios

  • New white paper examines insurance asset management in light of COVID-19

    02 June 2020

    Insurance Risk Data publishes analytical white paper on how the relationships between CIOs and asset managers have changed

  • IVASS orders Cattolica to increase capital by €500m

    02 June 2020

    Solvency ratios at two of Cattolica's life subsidiaries, BCC Vita and Vera Vita, fell below the minimum requirement

  • Comment: from Italy to Germany to the UK, it's all about the pain

    01 June 2020

    Rates are low, and they will remain low for decades, even the Bank of England says so

  • Italian insurer assets fell almost 10% in Q1 as BTP spreads widened

    29 May 2020

    Regulator reassures industry solvency still held above 200%

  • Australian insurers lick Q1 investment wounds worth A$10.8bn

    28 May 2020

    Regulator praises industry for deferring dividends, or re-stocking with capital raisings

  • Pandemic investment scenarios show bonds concerns at major European insurers

    28 May 2020

    Insurers publish results of COVID-19 scenarios, as they divulge credit portfolio losses

  • PRA struggles in discerning risk to insurers from market 'noise'

    27 May 2020

    Regulator warns of impact on MA effect as downgrades loom

  • UK new construction at 2-year low just as insurer interest hits one-year high

    27 May 2020

    UK underwriters invest €2.8bn in constructions, and infrastructure funds

  • Chubb subsidiary reveals sensitivity of outsourcing in SFCR

    27 May 2020

    Pimco named as delegated provider of investment services