David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Europe's affiliates occupy half of top places for fund-based assets

    02 October 2019

    Affiliates' €2.2trn in funds is now nearly one third of total fund assets managed in Europe

  • Eiopa draws a blank on Solvency II risk charges for climate change

    01 October 2019

    But warns industry to take account of climate risk in investments and valuation

  • Dutch authorities warn over replacing key mortgage rate benchmarks

    30 September 2019

    Switching from Libor and Eionia proving troublesome for insurers

  • BaFin reveals 12% investment turnover rate by insurers in 2018

    27 September 2019

    Regulator also ran tests using 1.2% reinvestment yield last year

  • Germans boost infrastructure holdings by almost two-thirds in 2018

    26 September 2019

    Lack of domestic projects not keeping pace with appetite, says GDV

  • Moody's expects German life insurers to sell off more fixed income to feed cash reserves

    26 September 2019

    Offloading fixed income for ZZR cost 0.5% in returns last year, says Moody's

  • Hymans Robertson taps KPMG for life investment unit head

    25 September 2019

    New recruit Daniel Becker brings expertise in private assets

  • Why asset managers may be missing a trick in European non-life sales

    23 September 2019

    Map of investment risk-taking by non-life firms suggests novel set-up for sales teams

  • Varma and LGIM team up for ESG index fund

    19 September 2019

    Finnish pension insurer has seeded the fund with €200m

  • 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