David Walker

• Industry surprised by regulators' lack of knowledge about private debt

  13 June 2017

  But practitioners say underwriters need to familiarise themselves, too

  

• BaFin reveals market risk exposure of German life insurers

  09 June 2017

  Market risk makes up almost 80% of SCR for life insurers on the standard formula

  

• Breadth of ESG screening at Talanx touches €100bn mark

  01 June 2017

  German insurer updates on size of infrastructure investment programme

  

• Extent of German insurers' market risk revealed in SFCRs

  30 May 2017

  Industry exposure unveiled as Gothaer plans investments in property and renewables

  

• Gothaer combines responsibility for life and investment products

  26 May 2017

  Challenges brought by low interest rate climate and Solvency II require 'realignment of business model'

  

• Hannover Re praises private equity and property as saviours of investment income

  10 May 2017

  German reinsurer only expects yields elsewhere to stop falling in 2018

  

• Low rates to slice $55bn off insurers' investment income this year, predicts Moody's

  27 April 2017

  Insurers in Germany, Norway and Taiwan most likely to take hit on profits

• Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds

  26 April 2017

  Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say

  

• Nuernberger's lower investment result a sign of the times for German life sector

  26 April 2017

  Finding yields above 1.2% for acceptable risk is a "considerable challenge", insurer says

  

• Volkswohl Bund stems fall in yields with renewables and foreign investments

  21 April 2017

  German life firm accelerates level of stockpiling reserves for in-force policies