David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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

  • 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

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