David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • UBS lifer reveals fee-sharing with affiliated manager in outsourcing agreements

    07 April 2026

    SFCR shows pay rate for passive and active funds on its unit-linked platform

  • Solvency II fuels 1 billion-piece annual data-dump by insurers, EIOPA reveals

    07 April 2026

    Authority plans reducing frequency of some fund look-through reporting in QRTs

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's annuity writer(s) wins out in capital framework re-set

    07 April 2026

    Apollo-backed Challenger argued for some significantly different capital framework settings, to those its industry will get, come July

  • Ping An highlights affiliated manager's RMB 1.6trn support for China's real economy in 2025

    06 April 2026

    Annual report also revealed more about non-mainstream investments

  • Athora: The benefit of patient capital, in private credit

    06 April 2026

    For every €1 the re/insurer has deployed in private credit since 2018, losses have affected €0.007, as David Walker discovers

  • Japan Post Insurance strengthens commercial ties to KKR

    06 April 2026

    Latest links formed through M&A of local insurance agency operator

  • Apollo-backed Challenger pragmatic as MA fails to appear in annuities rules re-write

    06 April 2026

    Alternatives manager had told APRA an MA was "optimal" outcome for Australia's annuity writers

  • Comment: Japanese insurers join the space-race

    03 April 2026

    Their homeland has signed up to the Artemis launch programme, and affiliated managers see the rewards to boldly go....

  • Lifers' trade body desired different risk-allowance floor in annuity capital framework revision

    03 April 2026

    Financial Services Council argued for 35% floor, but industry got 45% floor, instead

  • Japan Post Insurance strikes funded re deal with Talcott Life Re and Aflac Re Bermuda

    03 April 2026

    Deal is Aflac unit's first such transaction for external client