David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • ILS performance outpaces major fixed income, analysis by Schroders shows

    03 May 2024

    Manager promotes diversifying benefits of buying insurance underwriting risk

  • National regulators tell EIOPA which assets they believe are riskiest for insurers

    03 May 2024

    EIOPA has concluded examination of Solvency II's prudent person principle

  • Chart of the Week - BoE staff paper pats BoE on back, for combatting Liz Truss's 'Growth Plan'

    03 May 2024

    BoE working paper discusses Truss/Kwarteng's min-budget, and how the Old Lady of Threneedle Street defused a crisis

  • Historic correlation assumptions set to change, actuaries warned

    02 May 2024

    Function of commodities and interest rates in portfolios may be tested in new world order

  • Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies

    02 May 2024

    Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class

  • Hong Kong regulator sets out stance on insurers' capital and crypto asset investments

    02 May 2024

    But door perhaps left ajar, for central banks' digital currencies

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

    01 May 2024

    French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

  • Sterling LDI fund managers face 300bps liquidity buffer

    01 May 2024

    Asset managers gave mixed reviews of CSSF's proposals during consultation

  • Newton IP wins Japanese insurance engagement outsourcing

    30 April 2024

    As part of insurer's emerging managers programme