David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Sumitomo Life puts JPY 1bn behind its first university VC firm allocation

    13 August 2024

    Tokyo's Keio University gave birth to the KII Impact Fund

  • Allianz raises prospect of M&A to grow Pimco unit, not to sell AM businesses

    12 August 2024

    Fixed income-focused affiliate drove net inflows to Allianz in H1

  • QBE to lose $1.6bn of investment assets in North American reinsurance deal

    09 August 2024

    Australian groups also building a HTM portfolio to improve rates risk

  • Strategic equity sales boost quarterly result at Tokio Marine

    08 August 2024

    But Japanese group reveals provisioning for CRE loan losses in international business

  • PIMCO leads Allianz's third-party asset gathering in 2024

    08 August 2024

    Insurer has kept reinvestment yields fairly stable year on year

  • GSAM and Digital Bridge win fund-based infrastructure mandates in Japan

    06 August 2024

    Sumitomo Life and Dai-ichi Life are making separate infrastructure fund investments

  • Insurer AMs suffer slumps in Japan stock funds as benchmarks crash

    06 August 2024

    As major indices fall over 12% on Monday, abrdn says Japan "tends to overshoot"

  • Bermuda's Hamilton Re pays $302m to outsourcing partner from 2021

    06 August 2024

    30% performance fee plus other incentives cost reinsurer as much as fund's base fee

  • Dai-ichi Life to become a 'carbon credit matchmaker' in pursuit of net-zero Japan

    06 August 2024

    Japanese lifer will help match carbon credit investors with emitters, it has announced

  • APAC Weekly - China debt plan launches suggest no end in sight to insurers' thirst for infra

    06 August 2024

    Almost 200 infrastructure debt and equity plans have been launched by Chinese insurance asset managers so far this year