David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Key outsourcing fund loses appeal for German lifers as ZZR build-up stops

    12 November 2024

    Better interest rates mean fewer bond sales, with knock-on effect for Spezialfonds, says BVI

  • MS&AD reveals investment plans for proceeds from strategic equity sales

    11 November 2024

    Japanese composite also reveals outsourcing plans for portfolio

  • Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

    11 November 2024

    Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

  • Schroders expands access to private markets and alts strategies

    11 November 2024

    Schroders Capital and Singaporean platform ADDX strike partnership

  • Veni, vidi, vici (iterum, in Washington DC)

    08 November 2024

    The 'US election general account' of European insurers revealed

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

    05 November 2024

    A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets

  • Baloise promotes former investment head to banking CEO role

    05 November 2024

    Thomas Schöb replaces Jürg Ritz from January

  • Singapore to pilot-test new capital charges for sustainable infrastructure

    05 November 2024

    MAS chairman says pilot test will aid "greater allocation" to such assets

  • Chart of the Week - Discounts for infrastructure in different jurisdictions

    01 November 2024

    As Hong Kong considers beneficial capital charges for infrastructure, it has many examples to draw upon

  • LGIM's £12bn pension risk transfer goldmine for Legal & General

    31 October 2024

    Some relationships with PRT clients stretch back over 25 years