David Walker

• Chart of the week: EEA Insurers' appetite for EMD

  14 January 2022

  Accuracy of ratings questioned

• Use takaful as blueprint for earmarking premiums to 'green investments' experts say

  13 January 2022

  Poll of IAR Asia's audience suggest operational challenge

• Nations' energy policy is part of Dai-ichi Life's due diligence for 'green bonds'

  13 January 2022

  Investors must consider national energy policies when investing Japanese underwriter says

• IAR Asia: Insurers welcome risk-based capital - across the region

  12 January 2022

  Hong Kong and China regulators each recently tweaked rules

• China offers insurers discounted 'green capital charge' under new rules

  11 January 2022

  CBIRC also promoting real-economy investments by C-Ross Phase II

• Foreign-owned and larger firms best placed for early HK RBC adoption

  10 January 2022

  Regulator has invited applications to begin RBC early

• Investors to benefit as Asia ILS market comes to life

  10 January 2022

  Investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) was once about natural catastrophe risk, but in Asia, practitioners expect far greater diversity in life/non-life risks being packaged, with help from insurers and regulators alike, they tell David Walker

  

• Chart of the week - EM funding shortfalls for required climate investments, 2016-2030

  07 January 2022

  Emerging markets are going to need insurers, and badly, to meet their climate investment requirements

• 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