David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat

    27 December 2024

    Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change

  • Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers

    26 December 2024

    Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July

  • Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March

    25 December 2024

    FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • APAC Weekly - 'Thanks for that job interview,' says the smiling APAC CEO - 'we'll text you, yeah?'

    24 December 2024

    Re/insurers join 'generation Insta' in slay bid for rizz, to woo Gen-Z employees

  • SBI Life backs Tokyo University, and trade in Africa, with sustainable bond investments

    23 December 2024

    Japanese lifer announced the two separate investments this month

  • Chart of the Week: The real-world effects of the media's pessimism about climate change

    20 December 2024

    Academics find economic and financial repercussions from downbeat media covering global warming

  • APAC Weekly - 'Rebalancing risk' of homeowners and insurers, in an era of climate change

    17 December 2024

    During research into the growing problems of affordability and availability of home insurance in Australia, academics Julia Plass and Jens Zinn uncovered, and addressed, a notable asymmetry in 'who knows what' when it comes to climate-related risks.

  • Nippon Life can manage risks of funded re after Resolution M&A, S&P Global Ratings predicts

    16 December 2024

    But ratings agency expects parties to deal to watch regulatory developments closely

  • Carlyle-owned asset manager scores massive win in outsourcing by Nippon Life

    16 December 2024

    TCW could win mandate worth up to $3.3bn from lifer