David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • Taiju Life buys into Inter-American Development Bank bond

    25 June 2024

    Proceeds will be assigned to sustainability projects benefitting the Amazon rainforest

  • BMA said to tighten screws over re/insurers' related-party investments

    25 June 2024

    Pre-approval now needed, as PE ownership structure under microscope again

  • French regulator tightens screws on insurers and greenwashing risk

    24 June 2024

    Retail investment products form the focus on group organised by the ACPR and AMF

  • Sumitomo Life issues sustainability-linked loan under new financing framework

    21 June 2024

    Five-year loan links to GHG cuts by Nippon Thomson

  • South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

    21 June 2024

    But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

    21 June 2024

    High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  • Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

    18 June 2024

    But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

    13 June 2024

    New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula