David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Who owns Europe's insurance industry?

    14 November 2025

    Insurance Risk Data has conducted granular analysis of ownership for 1,782 European insurance undertakings

  • US lifers' appetite accelerating for privately-rated and unrated FI, Moody's Ratings finds

    14 November 2025

    Athene US has second lowest proportional exposure among large peers

  • Bringing liquidity to the world of private credit

    13 November 2025

    Trading platform HedgeBay is seeing brisk business trading funds holding AI, gold and rare-earths. Will private credit soon follow? David Walker spoke with its CFO to find out

  • Comment - Want to buy a house for $0.65? Then come to flood-prone Australia

    12 November 2025

    Politicians remain divided over attracting mitigating/adaptation investment Downunder, despite evidence of calamity

  • APAC Weekly - How many 'centres of AM excellence' can APAC hold?

    11 November 2025

    Numerous countries' insurers are jostling to make their nation the leader for AM

  • Fubon Life outsources NT$750m to Taiwanese growth-investor's PE fund

    10 November 2025

    AppWorks commitment is latest in insurer's string of alts fund purchases

  • Nippon Life to use AI-enabled credit in its lending operations

    10 November 2025

    Lifer says the lending methods AI can facilitate benefit SMEs

  • Chart of the Week: PE-owned lifers, private assets, and the BIS

    07 November 2025

    The Bank for International Settlements has taken aim at numerous topics swirling around life insurers, all linked by 'illiquidity'

  • Comment - A mea culpa, and belated apology, to Challenger

    07 November 2025

    Australians buying more annuities in future? 'Don't bet on it,' a cynic might say

  • Comment - Did you hear that? Was it the sound of Apollo's executives cheering?

    06 November 2025

    PE-owned Challenger very satisfied with planned regulatory reforms in Australia