David Walker

• Charts of the Year - How 2024 looked, in twelve charts

  13 December 2024

  It was never a dull moment in 2024, including for our Chart of the Week column. This week we provide 12 new charts, which we feel summarise the 'key points' from the year just gone.

• APAC Weekly - Australia as a nation grappling with climate change, and insurance

  10 December 2024

  Academics Julia Plass and Jens Zinn have researched Australia's changing landscape, as extreme weather makes insurance harder to get or, at least afford, so we asked them, 'What is to be done?'

• 'Wild OATs' - Michel Barnier's €300bn headache for French CIOs

  09 December 2024

  Sharp fluctuations hit OATs as French PM Michel Barnier resigns

• Chart of the Week - Lapse risk and where it emerged in Italy

  06 December 2024

  IVASS asked lifers to "rethink" products after lapses hit 12-year peaks in 2023. We examine who might be thinking hardest

• Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'

  04 December 2024

  Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too

  

• APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

  03 December 2024

  It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

• Japan's earthquake reinsurer backs gender-based project bond

  29 November 2024

  Five-year bond carries 0.82% coupon

• Chart of the Week - EIOPA spells out dangers of fossil fuel investments

  29 November 2024

  As well as suggesting capital surcharges for GHG-risk equities and bonds this month, EIOPA analysed the risks of keeping them in Gas

• Nippon Life LP backs local AI healthcare start-up to combat "serious labour shortage"

  28 November 2024

  Zest focuses on AI for in-home and nursing care

• Sompo increases full-year investment income expectations

  28 November 2024

  Full-year income will have almost doubled since 2020 fiscal year