David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Hong Kong regulator introduces hybrid product to close HK$6.9trn 'mortality gap'

    06 January 2022

    Protection-linked plans hoped to serve customers and lifers alike

  • COMMENT - Was one vital ingredient missing in EIOPA's liquidity stress test?

    05 January 2022

    EIOPA business-liquidity stress test for insurers needed very illiquid markets

  • CIOs prove their worth in EIOPA's industry liquidity stress test

    05 January 2022

    Only 'management actions' kept net liquidity positions positive in simulated 're-run' of Q1 2020

  • Hong Kong's regulator invites lifers to adopt RBC early

    04 January 2022

    Life firm practitioners say RBC is already guiding investment decisions

  • Chart of the year - Global insurers' 'Covid exposures' and other measures

    31 December 2021

    In the wash-up from Covid, we reflect on how things were, one year on

  • AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive

    30 December 2021

    Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"

  • French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020

    29 December 2021

    Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015

  • AMP agrees M&A for infrastructure outsourcing partner

    29 December 2021

    Wurttembergische, R&V and Gothaer among debt-investing clients of AMP Capital

  • French and their equities

    29 December 2021

    They love it, but in small proportions

  • Comment - Enter the dragon? Will Hong Kong's CIOs be persuaded, or compelled, to invest in China?

    28 December 2021

    Hong Kong's insurers must meet claims/promises, but are being told they should support the Mainland's economy, too