David Walker

• Comment - 'Energy wars' reopen the political risk frontline for renewables in Australia

  12 June 2024

  Investors rightly skeptical about backing renewables in Australia, as politicians backflip

• RGA names Axel André its next CFO replacing Todd Larson

  12 June 2024

  André joins from American Equity Investment Life Insurance this month

• Nippon Life takes solvency hit for boosting investment risk

  10 June 2024

  Investment yield margin improved in the year to March 2024

• Japan's earthquake risk reinsurer buys into social bond

  10 June 2024

  Underwriter now holds 46 social, green and sustainability-linked issues

• Alternative asset expansion in Europe's GAs topped core fixed income growth in 2023

  07 June 2024

  Infrastructure funds' 10.3% increase more than tripled core fixed income build-up

• Comment - Why EIOPA's latest investment statistics have 'something for everyone'

  07 June 2024

  From alts to the core of GAs, and local government debt exposure, everyone had something to cheer about

• Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

  07 June 2024

  Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

  

• A new dawn? Contemplating asset strategy anew, after the BOJ's seismic policy shift

  06 June 2024

  At a historic policy inflexion point in Japan - the Bank of Japan raising interest rates and relinquishing its long-held negative-rates stance - Man Group's Max Davies discusses interest rates, duration, FX hedging and CIOs' ongoing hunt for yield with David Walker

  

• Japan's lifers widened positive investment spread 4% last reporting year

  06 June 2024

  Sector built on super-long JGB holdings to cut rates risk ahead of new rules

• Comment: 'Saving democracy' may be the next ESG investment frontier for CIOs

  05 June 2024

  Underwriters are defending democratic values in words and deeds, will CIOs follow suit?