David Walker

• Sumitomo Life issues sustainability-linked loan under new financing framework

  21 June 2024

  Five-year loan links to GHG cuts by Nippon Thomson

• South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

  21 June 2024

  But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

• COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

  21 June 2024

  High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  

• Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

  18 June 2024

  But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

• Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

  14 June 2024

  Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  

• German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

  13 June 2024

  New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

• Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

  13 June 2024

  Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year

• Insurer of Danish academics could suffer complete collapse of shareholdings and remain solvent

  13 June 2024

  Akademikernes Pensionskassen SFCR reveals fate of solvency ratio after stress-tests

• Alternatives prove their worth, again, for Germany's DEVK group

  13 June 2024

  Non-mainstream assets did better than fixed income and were steadier than shares since 2022

• Moody's upgrades Hanwha Life for tackling negative spread in legacy book

  12 June 2024

  But agency warns about ongoing "elevated" asset risks with "sizeable exposure" to local project finance and foreign CRE