David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Nippon Earthquake Insurance buys into printer's sustainability bond

    09 May 2025

    Favourable terms exist if issue cuts GHGs by 38%

  • SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors

    08 May 2025

    Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show

  • Solvency of Zurich's German transfer insurer softens despite investment de-risking

    07 May 2025

    Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR

  • Comment - Does lightning strike twice? A (forlorn) bid for lower home premiums

    06 May 2025

    Might address-level risk exposure depend, partly, on who lives at an address?

  • APAC Weekly - Election outcomes spell good news for CIOs

    06 May 2025

    Renewables pathway has been fairly set for next three years in Australia

  • Axa's German life policy transfer unit saw market risk double in 2024

    06 May 2025

    But Ager Leben reduced its €1.6bn Zinszusatzreserve

  • Chart of the Week - MA is a £78bn capital goldmine that UK lifers just keep digging

    02 May 2025

    Lifers exhibit 190% average solvency ratio with the MA, just 85% without it

  • Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

    01 May 2025

    For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024

  • UK lifers unlock £78bn of capital benefits from MA in 2024

    01 May 2025

    Their benefit comprised £34.7bn lower SCRs and £43.4bn higher eligible own funds

  • Asahi Life backs residential solar loans

    30 April 2025

    Asahi Mutual Life to help Japanese get costly solar panels on rooftops