David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Tokio Marine launches delisting M&A deal for local business consultancy

    06 January 2025

    Integrated Design & Engineering's shares now trade just JPY 10 below offer price

  • Embattled Thai insurer gets M&A offer for affiliated manager

    03 January 2025

    M&A would raise much-needed capital that its regulator demands

  • Nippon Life makes first green loan to local financial firm

    03 January 2025

    The JPY 300m facility was lifer's first such loan

  • Nippon Life and AXA Life team up on unit-linked policy sales

    03 January 2025

    Japanese insurers have collaborated on health business for 10 years

  • Chart of the Week - What Solvency UK means for the UK General Account

    03 January 2025

    Last year the PRA announced raised thresholds for UK insurers to be subject to 'Solvency UK'

  • Japanese insurers flock to country's Asset Owner Principles

    02 January 2025

    Government distributed precepts for institutional investors in August

  • Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond

    02 January 2025

    Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations

  • Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"

    02 January 2025

    Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio

  • APAC Weekly - The Year in Review, and the Year Ahead

    31 December 2024

    APAC's re/insurance industry and landscape for cover gave endless stories of change, many of prudent management, and of thoughtful industry leaders

  • Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

    30 December 2024

    CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built