David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Tokio Marine reveals size, and sale plans, for strategic equity stakes

    21 May 2024

    Previous sell-offs boosted capital gains significantly

  • Sompo wants overseas credit to replace strategic equity sales

    21 May 2024

    Group plans eliminating strategic holdings by fiscal 2030

  • Comment: Back, by popular demand! SFCR analysis season returns on IAR

    20 May 2024

    Solvency II for reports for solos and groups for 2023 are now under IAR's microscope

  • Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'

    20 May 2024

    The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert

  • T&D Financial buys into motorway firm's social bond

    20 May 2024

    Bond proceeds will fulfil various sustainability goals in T&D Financial's ESG programme, it says

  • Spanish life firm investments jump over 10% in 2023, regulator reveals

    17 May 2024

    Industry sat on €283bn investment pot at end of 2023

  • Folksam units back Swedish VC fund focused on climate themes

    17 May 2024

    Investment came from various units of the Swedish insurance group

  • Chart of the Week - Japanese life CIOs, super-long bonds and shareholdings

    17 May 2024

    Moody's and Life Insurance Association of Japan analyse trends in one key, and one more peripheral, asset class

  • Moody's expects re-invigorated buying of private credit by lifers as rate-cuts loom

    16 May 2024

    Ratings agency presented thorough analysis of drivers of demand by lifers for illiquids/private assets globally

  • German general account ends 2023 agonisingly close to €2trn, BaFin finds

    16 May 2024

    BaFin reveals "significant write-downs" on insurers' private and commercial property credit investments