David Walker

• Debeka taps investment portfolio to cover policy payouts

  19 February 2019

  German insurer's asset manager considering investing in stock markets for customers

• Aberdeen Standard Investments buys Asian property boutique

  18 February 2019

  M&A adds $1bn to ASI’s $6.3bn property portfolio

• Allianz asset managers post 3.7% operating profit growth

  15 February 2019

  But P&C performance was the main driver of €11.5bn group operating profits in 2018

• Hard Brexit risks leaving UK insurers on a 'capital cliff edge'

  12 February 2019

  As a no-deal Brexit hovers over the financial industry like the sword of Damocles, sovereign holdings could be a bigger risk for the solvency positions of UK insurers' than for their European rivals. The Association of British Insurers wants the regulator to act, and fast

  

• Italian regulator calls for better property risk data

  12 February 2019

  Poor statistics make for poor risk modelling, Ivass says

• Life profits dive on bumpy markets at Australia’s Challenger

  12 February 2019

  But affiliated managers grow assets in last half-year

• UnipolSai unit taps into banks' bad loan portfolios

  08 February 2019

  Unipol ReC pays €130m for two portfolios worth €1.3bn

• Munich Re slows gainful investment sales for ZZR

  06 February 2019

  The mandatory interest reserve, or ZZR, obligation applies to the Ergo Lebensversicherung primary life insurance unit

• Finland’s Varma tightens screws on coal industry

  01 February 2019

  Insurer puts added emphasis on climate change mitigation in the latest update of its responsible investment principles

• China Life blames equities for expected 70% profit slump

  30 January 2019

  Both volatility and falls played their part, insurer says