David Walker

• Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

  14 June 2024

  Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  

• German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

  13 June 2024

  New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

• Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

  13 June 2024

  Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year

• Insurer of Danish academics could suffer complete collapse of shareholdings and remain solvent

  13 June 2024

  Akademikernes Pensionskassen SFCR reveals fate of solvency ratio after stress-tests

• Alternatives prove their worth, again, for Germany's DEVK group

  13 June 2024

  Non-mainstream assets did better than fixed income and were steadier than shares since 2022

• Moody's upgrades Hanwha Life for tackling negative spread in legacy book

  12 June 2024

  But agency warns about ongoing "elevated" asset risks with "sizeable exposure" to local project finance and foreign CRE

• Comment - 'Energy wars' reopen the political risk frontline for renewables in Australia

  12 June 2024

  Investors rightly skeptical about backing renewables in Australia, as politicians backflip

• RGA names Axel André its next CFO replacing Todd Larson

  12 June 2024

  André joins from American Equity Investment Life Insurance this month

• Nippon Life takes solvency hit for boosting investment risk

  10 June 2024

  Investment yield margin improved in the year to March 2024

• Japan's earthquake risk reinsurer buys into social bond

  10 June 2024

  Underwriter now holds 46 social, green and sustainability-linked issues