David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Solvency capital at Bermuda's re/insurers, revisited

    27 September 2024

    Bermuda's underwriters took 2023 as an opportunity to replenish, and grow, eligible capital

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • Chart of the Week: IMAs between Bermuda's re/insurers and asset managers revealed in forthcoming research

    13 September 2024

    Terms of Sirius Point's redeeming from Third Point is one part of Insurance Risk Data's study

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data

  • South Korean insurers' net earnings rose 3% in H1, all thanks to non-life firms

    06 September 2024

    Industry's return on equity brightened to 11.8%

  • BMA reveals private credit investment weightings among Bermuda's asset-intensive re/insurers

    06 September 2024

    Alts allocations not uniformly higher than across all Bermuda's commercial long-term re/insurers

  • Bermuda regulator assesses the risks and rewards of insurers' private credit holdings

    06 September 2024

    Watchdog found over 80% of private placement and 90% of CLO holdings are IG among funded re/insurers

  • FWD group CIO Andreas Hoffmann to bid farewell to Hong Kong insurer this year

    04 September 2024

    Hoffmann had joined FWD from Generali, in 2020