David Walker

• Japanese regulator reveals signatories to local investment code

  29 December 2016

  Insurers still lag pensions as asset owner adherents

• Mitsui Sumitomo pulls out of Sinatay Life

  28 December 2016

  Japanese insurer said to be at odds with Sinatay's real estate investment plans

  

• China regulator to tighten equity investment rules

  23 December 2016

  CIRC move follows bans for some fast-trading insurers

• German insurers grew investments by 4% in 2015

  20 December 2016

  BaFin data shows investment funds the big winners

• Dutch mortgages a €100bn opportunity for insurance sector

  14 December 2016

  Industry will need more non-core investments to boost returns, regulator says

• Invesco targets insurer needs with hire from JPMAM

  12 December 2016

  Managers must be partners to underwriters, Invesco says

• Allianz subsidiaries jump at private market fixed income

  09 December 2016

  Two tie-ups in a week for Pimco and AllianzGI, as private credit offers "super-secular opportunity"

• Raising the stakes in fund management

  07 December 2016

  Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.

  

• Industry turns up the heat on MA reform

  05 December 2016

  The industry's opportunity to recommend changes to EU regulation in a post-Brexit world has delivered a comprehensive criticism of the MA. David Walker and Asa Gibson report.

  

• Chinese insurers set for foreign investment spree

  02 December 2016

  Diversifying risks and slumps in yields at home cited as reasons