David Walker

• Achmea builds up market risk after capital hedge

  17 August 2017

  Insurer shares its domestic rivals' appetite for mortgage investments

  

• Private equity and property drive Hannover Re first half returns

  10 August 2017

  But CFO cautions against expecting private equity returns to be repeated

  

• Danish insurers' investments attract regulator's attention

  09 August 2017

  Sector's exposure to mortgages rose as watchdog considered consultation

  

• Beijing to tighten foreign investment controls at state-owned insurers

  03 August 2017

  Authorities concerned by "irrational" foreign investments stemming from lack of accountability

  

• RSA suffers 9% slide in investment income

  02 August 2017

  First half results show a reinvestment yield of 1.6%

  

• Lancashire Holdings highlights hedge funds as driver of investment returns

  27 July 2017

  UK insurer says equities also contributed to first-half gains

  

• Insurers pile into French fintech fund

  26 July 2017

  Swiss Life, Groupama, SocGen, Natixis and Vaudoise commit to new fund targeting insurtech and regtech

  

• 'You never asked!' – asset managers respond to look-through data criticism

  25 July 2017

  Practitioners in the asset management sector have hit back against the notion that they failed to deliver on asset reporting data

  

• Insurers blame asset managers for insufficient look-through

  21 July 2017

  European insurers pass the buck onto asset managers for lack of reporting data, but Eiopa pursues a hard line with underwriters facing difficulty getting hands on investment data. David Walker reports

  

• 'How do I report my Deutschmark bonds?': Eiopa publishes Pillar III queries

  20 July 2017

  Investments prove to be the single most challenging aspect of Pillar III reporting