David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025

    NFRA named insurers involved and launched programme on Friday

  • Daido Life Insurance makes investment in getting Japan's SMEs to net zero

    12 February 2025

    Investment will dovetail with SME sustainability venture lifer runs in-house

  • Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana

    12 February 2025

    Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life also investing in Tokyo-based firm

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas

    11 February 2025

    In adding its name to Japanese insurers doing foreign M&A, Meiji Yasuda Life might also be adding LGIM to its list of outsourcing managers

  • Chart of the Week - In Generali's and BPCE's JV, 'affiliated AM giants' roar to life

    07 February 2025

    BPCE's and Generali's recent tie-up has created a new breed of insurance AM - the 'affiliated juggernaut'

  • Dai-ichi Life backs Tokyo with purchase of transition government bonds

    06 February 2025

    Lifer advocates more work on quantifying nation's near-term emissions-reduction targets

  • Meiji Yasuda Life's future co-creation fund invests in local digital start-up, MOSH

    06 February 2025

    MSL may provide content to customers using MOSH's outlet, it says

  • Sumitomo Life outsources local PE investing to emerging management house

    06 February 2025

    D Capital managers had "extensive track record in their previous jobs," lifer says

  • Twelve Capital, Generali and Descartes collaborate on parametric insurance fund

    05 February 2025

    Players said using parametric contracts had clear benefits for investors

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?