David Walker

• Chart of the week - Westminster flings open the (UK) MA door

  25 February 2022

  Will the UK's Solvency II reform ease non-life insurers' use of the MA

• AXA's managers generate 20% better revenues in 2021, as 'alts' star again.

  24 February 2022

  Russia exposure under €400m, partially thanks to ESG assessment

• Generali calls for "calm blood" and careful selection

  23 February 2022

  Ukraine tension still secondary to central bankers, Generali Asset & Wealth Management says

• Fitch sees UK reform as £30bn boost to already-popular illiquids

  23 February 2022

  Expects UK lifers to increase investment risk over cutting reinsurance

• Comment - Buying (windfarms) to the sound of gunfire

  23 February 2022

  Russia shoots itself in the pipeline, and seals Europe's climate transition

• Comment - UK's giant leap away from Solvency II

  22 February 2022

  Government's John Glen outlines to ABI how UK will jettison Solvency II

• UK government plans liberating 15% of lifers' capital

  22 February 2022

  More infrastructure and wider MA investing central to proposed reforms

• Comment - Australia, a lost cause for insurers on climate transition?

  21 February 2022

  Infrastructure manager used by insurers plans buying, then shutting, coal mines early

• BaFin warns insurers using derivatives more to boost returns

  21 February 2022

  Insurers hedging FX risk mainly for US dollars, sterling and Danish kronor

• Chart of the week: Cool Hand Bäte

  18 February 2022

  Allianz publish its FY result in a game of two halves