David Walker

• Comment: Munich Re's 'poor optics' on insurability in an era of climate change

  14 November 2024

  Board member Achim Kassow discussed climate change and insurability in Singapore last week

• Meiji Yasuda's start-up fund targets financials firms in latest investments

  13 November 2024

  Commitments to Miive and SmartBank will also entail collaboration with the insurer

• APAC Weekly - Singapore conference asks, are reinsurers good investments?

  12 November 2024

  Panellists at SIRC 2024 had mixed responses, as David Walker discovered

• Key outsourcing fund loses appeal for German lifers as ZZR build-up stops

  12 November 2024

  Better interest rates mean fewer bond sales, with knock-on effect for Spezialfonds, says BVI

• MS&AD reveals investment plans for proceeds from strategic equity sales

  11 November 2024

  Japanese composite also reveals outsourcing plans for portfolio

• Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

  11 November 2024

  Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

• Schroders expands access to private markets and alts strategies

  11 November 2024

  Schroders Capital and Singaporean platform ADDX strike partnership

• Veni, vidi, vici (iterum, in Washington DC)

  08 November 2024

  The 'US election general account' of European insurers revealed

  

• APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

  05 November 2024

  A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets

• Baloise promotes former investment head to banking CEO role

  05 November 2024

  Thomas Schöb replaces Jürg Ritz from January