David Walker

• Dai-ichi Life to add AUD 131.4bn to assets in Australian M&A

  07 April 2025

  Japanese group plans buying stake in Challenger from MS&AD

• Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

  04 April 2025

  Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation

• Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024

  04 April 2025

  MAP also added, profitably, to gold and commodity ETFs

• Beazley Furlonge syndicate praises its best returns as funds and shareholdings grow

  04 April 2025

  Hedge funds, credit and equities all played role in 5.1% rate of return in 2024

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers

  03 April 2025

  From music royalties to container leases, data centres to aircraft leases, esoteric ABS has something to offer every insurer

  

• Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

  03 April 2025

  Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

• Lloyd's syndicates welcome elevated yields, despite some softening from 2023

  03 April 2025

  But healthy yields come in landscape of heightened risk, syndicates warn

• Aberdeen predicts yen and gold to benefit as Asia "bears the brunt" of Trump's trade war

  03 April 2025

  Tokio Marine AM watching US asset prices for after-effects of tariffs

• Lloyd's syndicates keep careful watch on Donald Trump's tariff wars

  02 April 2025

  Syndicates voiced caution about change of US presidency in latest annual reports