David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment - Want to buy a house for $0.65? Then come to flood-prone Australia

    12 November 2025

    Politicians remain divided over attracting mitigating/adaptation investment Downunder, despite evidence of calamity

  • APAC Weekly - How many 'centres of AM excellence' can APAC hold?

    11 November 2025

    Numerous countries' insurers are jostling to make their nation the leader for AM

  • Fubon Life outsources NT$750m to Taiwanese growth-investor's PE fund

    10 November 2025

    AppWorks commitment is latest in insurer's string of alts fund purchases

  • Nippon Life to use AI-enabled credit in its lending operations

    10 November 2025

    Lifer says the lending methods AI can facilitate benefit SMEs

  • Chart of the Week: PE-owned lifers, private assets, and the BIS

    07 November 2025

    The Bank for International Settlements has taken aim at numerous topics swirling around life insurers, all linked by 'illiquidity'

  • Comment - A mea culpa, and belated apology, to Challenger

    07 November 2025

    Australians buying more annuities in future? 'Don't bet on it,' a cynic might say

  • Comment - Did you hear that? Was it the sound of Apollo's executives cheering?

    06 November 2025

    PE-owned Challenger very satisfied with planned regulatory reforms in Australia

  • Fitch warns EC's Solvency II reform plans could push shift to "higher-risk or less liquid credit investments"

    06 November 2025

    Firms with 'expanded allocations to private credit, real assets and structured instruments' put on notice

  • PRA says UK annuity writers can benefit from MAIA by year's end

    06 November 2025

    Regulator has received "flurry of interest" in mechanism from annuity writers already

  • Challenger foresees shift to fixed income, fewer growth assets after "generational" reform by regulator

    05 November 2025

    Australian annuity writer says proposed caps on private and unrated assets won't affect portfolio