David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • How can an asset manager provide an insurer with the best custom fit?

    17 February 2025

    James Bradbury, business development manager on Wellington Management's EMEA insurance team, tells David Walker how the manager's bespoke solutions are cut to fit its customers

  • Chart of the Week - Why the news is not all bad for Californian insurer State Farm GI

    14 February 2025

    Amid hefty natcat bills in past years, and worse probably yet to come from LA, State Farm's CIO has helped steady the ship

  • Comment - Chinese insurers find good luck, or good planning, in regulator's move on gold

    13 February 2025

    NFRA has begun letting 10 large underwriters make some bullion-related investments

  • IAG lets alts and shares slide well below target range, to 22% of shareholders' funds

    13 February 2025

    Australasian non-lifer foresees no near-term return to previous target range of 40% to 50%

  • Suncorp's 'manager alpha' declined again, modestly, by December

    13 February 2025

    Australasian non-lifer's impact investing allocation is now above plan

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025

    NFRA named insurers involved and launched programme on Friday

  • Daido Life Insurance makes investment in getting Japan's SMEs to net zero

    12 February 2025

    Investment will dovetail with SME sustainability venture lifer runs in-house

  • Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana

    12 February 2025

    Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life also investing in Tokyo-based firm

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas

    11 February 2025

    In adding its name to Japanese insurers doing foreign M&A, Meiji Yasuda Life might also be adding LGIM to its list of outsourcing managers

  • Chart of the Week - In Generali's and BPCE's JV, 'affiliated AM giants' roar to life

    07 February 2025

    BPCE's and Generali's recent tie-up has created a new breed of insurance AM - the 'affiliated juggernaut'