David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - How Europe's mid-sized insurers invest their general accounts

    04 June 2021

    General account allocations analysed for 140 different categorisations of European insurers

  • Generali aims to become €500bn investment powerhouse

    01 June 2021

    Generali's and Cattolica's post-M&A general account would still lag behind AXA and Allianz

  • Jérôme Haegeli - Swiss Re's man with the long-term (green infrastructure) plan

    31 May 2021

    Swiss Re's chief economist deals with black and white facts of the here-and-now. But our future, he hopes, will be somewhat greener, as David Walker discovers

  • Chart of the week

    21 May 2021

    Why markets, not pandemics, might keep Thomas Buberl awake

  • Insurers react against Bank of England's green bond buying plan

    21 May 2021

    Yields already low, Just's Andrew Bailey says

  • Swiss Re's Haegeli on assessing climate-friendliness of government bonds

    21 May 2021

    "Rating agency can play a key role in shaping best practices"

  • Cattolica SFCR reveals sharp change to BTP sensitivity in 2020

    20 May 2021

    New CFO joins to replace Enrico Mattioli

  • Generali CFO flags more insourcing as investment boutique skills expand

    20 May 2021

    Borean looking for more M&A of "high-fees" businesses

  • Aviva lists out MA investments, and a sharp solvency decline without them

    19 May 2021

    Group boosted investment risk-taking in 2020

  • COMMENT: CIOs, affiliates, and the Australian coal problem

    18 May 2021

    Insurers' managers took on India's government over Adani, but what about Australia?