David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Private credit market tops $3trn, estimates Alternative Credit Council

    09 June 2025

    Investors examine effects of growth and consolidation among managers on incentives

  • Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'

    06 June 2025

    Rigid rules and immutable guarantees could do Germany a disservice, DAV suggests

  • Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?

    06 June 2025

    A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate

  • Japan Post Insurance doubles investments in private property fund since July

    06 June 2025

    Dedicated-client fund is being run by Mitsui & Co Realty

  • Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong

    05 June 2025

    Deal involves "materially all risks" linked to the policy book

  • Mayday! FX volatility hits Taiwan's lifers but no crash landings are forecast

    04 June 2025

    When the Taiwan/US FX rate leaped 8% in two days last month, the same might well have happened to the heartrate of CIOs at life insurers, as David Walker examines

  • Chinese insurers build expertise in using derivatives, and AI, in investments

    04 June 2025

    IAMA has convened seminars for about 200 insurance attendees recently

  • 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM

    04 June 2025

    Ping AN AM, PICC AM and Taiking among managers with upbeat assessments of status quo

  • Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing

    04 June 2025

    GIAJ also recommends a definition for 'alternative' consistent with other sectors

  • Investment returns top €1bn from asset-intensive work at RGA's Irish unit

    04 June 2025

    Subsidiary's SFCRs since 2016 show its funded re investment results in isolation