David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Brussels' Solvency II reform hits German life firm's solvency only 60% as hard as Putin's war, SFCR finds

    20 July 2023

    IDEAL Leben stress-tests Solvency II reform, Vladimir Putin's bellicosity, property values and climate change

  • Comment - Brussels sprouts green proposals for Solvency II reform

    19 July 2023

    Brussels vote bets almost all chips on 'green' - and implies insurers should do the same

  • Ortec builds out climate and ESG team for CIOs

    19 July 2023

    Andrew Flynn joining from Clarity AI

  • French mutual's SFCR asks, 'whither our GA, if teleworking triggers a mental-health breakdown?'

    18 July 2023

    Underwriters also question restorative firepower and readiness, of central banks

  • French insurer reveals solvency ratio benefit from equity hedging

    18 July 2023

    Total return swap limited damage from falling markets in 2022

  • German insurer cites infrastructure investments for plunging equity SCR

    17 July 2023

    Part of analysis of over European 100 groups' market risk capital requirements since 2016

  • Comment - CIOs may feel the heat from health claims, as disastrous summer-furnaces intensify

    17 July 2023

    Climate change is not just about having GA liquidity to rebuild property - mortal risk is rising, too

  • Croatian currency SCRs vanished as country joined euro

    17 July 2023

    Some insurers took advantage of assured conversion rates to calculate a nil FX risk, SFCRs show

  • Singapore regulator wants better-informed local investors to grow region's ILS market

    14 July 2023

    Better catastrophe data also necessary to help model and understand risks, says MAS

  • Chart of the week -what equity sectors cause, and get hit by, crises and contagion?

    14 July 2023

    Researchers in Brazil analyse US markets from sub-prime to the COVID-19, via the 'Trump-effect'. They tell David Walker which sectors fared worst as Donald Trump rose to power? Was the AIG bail-out 'worth it'? And when it comes to crisis, 'will markets ever learn'?