David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Australia's non-lifers face growing natcat losses (and liquidity needs)

    02 January 2026

    'Keep cash on hand and reinsure, reinsure, reinsure' might be the mantra for insurers of cat-exposed property

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part III, Outsourcing and private markets assets - a new world for outsourcing?

    01 January 2026

    Insurers explore the potential impact of insurance CIOs increased appetite for non-mainstream, manager-originated assets, on the outsourcing agreements

  • APAC Weekly - The path ahead for APAC Insurers, and their CIOs, in 2026...

    30 December 2025

    Insurance Asset Risk dusts off its crystal ball for the APAC region

  • Comment - How to 'reverse engineer' a property insurer's natcat warning

    29 December 2025

    As 'natcat season' dawns in Australia, insurers roll out the bullet-point warnings...

  • Chart of the Week - German men: Do not read this article!

    26 December 2025

    From mortality figures to chocolate statistics, one data provider outdoes all others....

  • Comment - Reflections on China, loss ratios, and being an 'EV Sex Machine'...

    25 December 2025

    When combined ratios tell the lie of one EV driver's telematics data

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part II, structuring the modern outsourcing deal: insurers expectation

    25 December 2025

    Insurers examine how, together with their asset managers, they are now structuring outsourcing arrangements

  • APAC Weekly - Will Australia's public cyclone reinsurer ever run out of puff?

    23 December 2025

    Stakeholders are suggesting the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool could be shuttered

  • Comment: From Bondi to Sydney's sweltering west, Australia's most beautiful city loses its lustre

    19 December 2025

    Terrorism, and mercury, inflict awful costs on Australians, and their re/insurers

  • Outsourcing roundtable series: Part I, Does the traditional 'mandate model' has a future?

    18 December 2025

    Insurers explore how regulation, private assets and ESG are reshaping outsourcing today and in the decade ahead.