David Walker

• 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

• Swiss Life affiliate expands property management for Germany

  01 December 2016

  Organic growth complements recent M&A-led expansion in UK

• Dutch insurance watchdog notes significant hurdles to more SME financing

  30 November 2016

  Lack of analysis skills and non-uniformity of market hold sector back, DNB says

• Allianz plans unit to attract more Chinese investors

  28 November 2016

  Intention revealed as Beijing warms again to foreign managers

• Swiss Re urges action on tradability of infrastructure

  25 November 2016

  Change needed for laudable words to become tangible commitment, insurer says