David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners

    27 June 2024

    Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit

  • Fitch flags further cull in high-charge assets under K-ICS framework

    26 June 2024

    Ratings agency expects more purchases of local long-dated fixed income

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • Taiju Life buys into Inter-American Development Bank bond

    25 June 2024

    Proceeds will be assigned to sustainability projects benefitting the Amazon rainforest

  • BMA said to tighten screws over re/insurers' related-party investments

    25 June 2024

    Pre-approval now needed, as PE ownership structure under microscope again

  • French regulator tightens screws on insurers and greenwashing risk

    24 June 2024

    Retail investment products form the focus on group organised by the ACPR and AMF

  • Sumitomo Life issues sustainability-linked loan under new financing framework

    21 June 2024

    Five-year loan links to GHG cuts by Nippon Thomson

  • South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

    21 June 2024

    But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

    21 June 2024

    High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  • Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

    18 June 2024

    But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds